Technical Lead Manager, Handshake

• You are an experienced, hands-on senior engineering leader with extensive experience identifying problems, coming up with technical solutions, and driving projects to completion
• You care about culture, mentorship, and collaboration just as much as you care about coding, architecture, and technical design
• You have an extreme user-focus, you are comfortable with ambiguity, you can drive alignment, and you make thoughtful data-driven decisions
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
• 7+ years of industry ML experience
• Experience as Tech Lead or Manager
• End-to-End experience building web-scale AI systems, feature stores, microservices

Desirable

• Handshake is hiring a Technical Lead Manager, Machine Learning with a focus on Generative AI and Recommendations reporting to our Head of Core Relevance
• In this role, you will work on tackling that goal as part of a lean, high-visibility team
• You will be responsible for helping advance our AI product and infrastructure vision towards our mission of democratizing opportunity for millions of students on Handshake
• You will be part of a high-impact org that has already built a Data platform housing billions of data points, with cutting-edge production systems such as embedding-based retrieval, Graph Neural Networks, Fine-Tuned LLMs, and multi-stage rankers
• You will level up existing ML systems and drive marketplace metrics, while also accelerating greenfield AI-based products such as Social/Feed
• We’ll do all of this responsibly, with developed workstreams around Explainability, Fairness, and Quality
• You will be a Force Multiplier - setting technical direction, shaping engineering culture, identifying and adopting industry best practices, designing effective partnerships across the company, mentoring and coaching direct reports / peers, and more
• You will be a Leader - managing a lean team of machine learning engineers and data scientists while enabling effective collaboration, high-quality execution, and technical excellence across the Data organization
• You will be an Innovator - developing algorithms and Machine Learning systems that connect users across the Handshake marketplace; from students looking for their first jobs and internships to employers sourcing candidates for high-priority roles
• You will be a Collaborator - being an effective partner to product managers; you will work with product managers in driving new user experiences through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing and build experiments that drive key product decisions and provide invaluable insights