Data Tech Lead/Manager, Mill
$220-250k
Office located in San Bruno, CA
Food waste recycling company
Open for applications
Food waste recycling company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$220-250k
Office located in San Bruno, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of combined experience in software engineering, data science, machine learning, or data engineering, with at least 2 years in a lead or manager role guiding technical teams
- Master’s, PhD, or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics )
- A track record of data mining and data analysis, using data to solve business challenges at enterprise scale
- Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with large-scale data platforms such as SnowFlake, Redshift, BigQuery, or ClickHouse
- Experience designing and building reports and custom visualization dashboards (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Plotly )
- Proven track record of delivering AI/ML solutions from prototype to production
Desirable
- Familiarity with AWS or other cloud providers, including ML/AI services like SageMaker or Bedrock
- Python data science stack (Pandas/Dask/Numpy/Matplotlib/Seaborn/Jupyter/Visual Code)
- Generative AI techniques and technologies, such as small and large language model inference, cross-modal vision language models, prompt/context engineering, LORA fine-tuning, agents, RAG, MCP
- Computer vision experience, especially with models based on convolutional neural networks via the Pytorch ML framework and vision language models
- Practical experience with a wide range of machine learning algorithms (e.g. supervised, unsupervised, deep learning) and statistical techniques (e.g. regression analysis, hypothesis testing, A/B testing, time-series analysis)
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Passion for sustainability and tackling real-world environmental challenges
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to guide a small team focused on leveraging Mill’s extensive IoT data and AI capabilities for our consumer and business customers. You’ll set technical direction, roll up your sleeves to solve complex problems, and provide strong people leadership to help the team grow and thrive
- You’ll partner closely with product and business stakeholders to translate strategic goals into practical data solutions, ensuring that our data pipelines, AI models, and analytics tools drive tangible value for customers and the planet
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across data engineering, algorithms, and AI projects
- Analyze Mill's rich IoT data to identify trends, insights, and product opportunities
- Drive the development of data pipelines, predictive models, and business intelligence tools that empower our business customers
- Establish standards for code quality, testing, and data governance
- Champion a data-driven culture by establishing robust metrics and evaluation frameworks to guide model selection and ensure rigorous testing
- Lead the development and maintenance of our internal data visualization infrastructure, while collaborating with application teams to design customer-facing dashboards
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
Mill is only available in the US, but since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(Founder & President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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