Lead Machine Learning Engineer

About the role

DT (NASDAQ: APPS) is unifying the full mobile experience. Our growth platform powers the mobile ecosystem by bringing together advertisers, app developers, and device partners, to create a unique and premium value exchange, that results in a personalized and seamless mobile device experience.

At DT, we move fast, think big, and build collaboratively. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere, and we trust our teams to take ownership, challenge convention, and make an impact from day one.

Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to products and experiences used by millions around the world.

With us, you will enjoy competitive compensation, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to invest in your total well-being, all within a hybrid and flexible work environment.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to serve as a technical authority and driver of our machine learning systems. In this role, you will lead the architecture, design, and productionization of complex ML models and data pipelines that directly impact core product capabilities. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, solving non-routine technical challenges, setting engineering standards, and providing technical leadership and mentorship to peer engineers without formal direct-report administration.

Lead Machine Learning Engineer:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Lead the end-to-end design, architecture, and deployment of production-grade machine learning models and ML infrastructure.

Translate ambiguous, complex business problems into scalable ML engineering solutions and system specifications.

Establish MLOps best practices, operational standards, framework selections, and model monitoring/evaluation workflows across the team.

Evaluate emerging ML technologies, architectures, and tools to determine feasibility and adoption for the organization.

Execution & Hands-on Development

Write clean, maintainable, high-performance code (Python, C++, Scala, or equivalent) to build and optimize ML pipelines and training systems.

Design robust features, feature stores, and scalable data ingestion systems in collaboration with Data Engineering.

Drive model optimization, latency reduction, distributed training, and cost-efficient inference at scale.

Implement proactive monitoring for model drift, data quality, performance degradation, and system health in production.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Mentorship

Act as the primary technical contact for product managers, domain experts, and executive stakeholders to align ML roadmaps with business goals.

Mentor and guide P1–P3 level Machine Learning Engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pair engineering.

Partner with DevOps, Platform, and Security teams to ensure seamless deployment, governance, and infrastructure security.

Requirements

Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related quantitative field with 8+ years of professional ML engineering experience.

Production ML: Proven track record of taking complex ML models from inception to high-scale production deployment (real-time and batch).

Frameworks & Tools: Deep expertise with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax) and traditional ML libraries (e.g., Scikit-Learn, XGBoost).

MLOps & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with orchestration, containerization, and MLOps platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, MLflow, Kubeflow, AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI).

Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, distributed systems, and CI/CD automation.

About you as the Lead Machine Learning Engineer:

Prior experience acting as a Technical Lead or Principal Contributor on high-impact engineering initiatives.

Expertise in LLM orchestration, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or modern generative AI systems.

Familiarity with distributed computing engines (e.g., Ray, Spark, Dask) and high-throughput databases (vector databases, feature stores).

DT (NASDAQ: APPS) is a mobile growth platform that powers superior experiences and outcomes for advertisers, app developers, carriers, OEMs, and publishers worldwide.

Our technology connects brands and apps with consumers across devices, apps, and mobile environments — helping partners drive awareness, acquisition, engagement, and monetization through intelligent, integrated experiences.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, DT operates globally across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.

DT is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and believe teams with different points of view build better products, ideas, and experiences.