Job ID: r18716

What if, in your next adventure, you were surrounded by people who, like you, look for an unlimited playground to explore, share, and test, would you care to hear more? You've opened the right door! As an R&D team, making sure your ideas are heard and encouraged is what we strive to do!What You'll Do:

CRITEO is looking for a Lead ML Engineer to join our AI Lab department (a.k.a CAIL) and to manage our Core Embeddings team!

The Core Embeddings team at Criteo is aiming to accelerate client teams delivery cycles by building off-the-shelf reusable embeddings and models. More precisely, the team is dedicated to training and benchmarking foundation models leveraging commerce data and making available an accessible pipeline, pre-trained models, and powerful reusable context and content embeddings that are adapted to multiple Criteo use cases, and directly usable at scale.

Your main missions :

Define the team's roadmap, prioritize projects, and select real use cases to guide the development of commerce foundation models, leveraging latest advances in machine learning.

Act as a driving force within the team fostering a collaborative environment to deliver the roadmap.

Navigate the need for compromises, justify decisions, and balance multiple ML approaches to select the most promising ones.

Maintain continuous communication with the partner and client teams to ensure alignment and integration of reusable embeddings and models.

Understand and address scalability challenges related to machine learning embeddings, leveraging your deep ML knowledge.

Who You Are:

Strong understanding of machine learning principles, preferably with an experience in training and deploying ML models.

Solid experience in Object Oriented Programming and architecture (Spark, Scala, C#, Java, or C++) as well as distributed computing (Hadoop).

Ability to make informed decisions on project priorities and directions, balancing various stakeholder inputs and leveraging real uses cases to guide them.

Proven ability to foster strong relationships and drive collaboration within and across teams.

Experience in leading and mentoring a technical team

A can do attitude and the ability to work on problems by thinking positively and in a collaborative manner while maintaining focus and effectiveness.

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!​

Who We Are:

Criteo is the global commerce media company that enables marketers and media owners to deliver richer consumer experiences and drive better commerce outcomes through its industry leading Commerce Media Platform.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices around the world or from home, our incredible team of 3,600 Criteos collaborates to develop an open and inclusive environment. We seek to ensure that all of our workers are treated equally, and we do not tolerate discrimination based on race, gender identity, gender, sexual orientation, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, political opinion, pregnancy, migrant status, ethnicity, marital or family status, or other protected characteristics at all stages of the employment lifecycle including how we attract and recruit, through promotions, pay decisions, benefits, career progression and development. We aim to ensure employment decisions and actions are based solely on business-related considerations and not on protected characteristics. As outlined in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we strictly forbid any kind of discrimination, harassment, mistreatment or bullying towards colleagues, clients, suppliers, stakeholders, shareholders, or any visitors of Criteo. All of this supports us in our mission to power the world’s marketers with trusted and impactful advertising encouraging discovery, innovation and choice in an open internet.

Why Join Us:

At Criteo, we take pride in being a caring culture and are committed to providing our employees with valuable benefits that support their physical, emotional and financial wellbeing, their interests and the important life events. We aim to create a place where people can grow and learn from each other while having a meaningful impact. We want to set you up for success in your job, and an important part of that includes comprehensive perks & benefits. Benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo. When determining compensation, we carefully consider a wide range of job-related factors, including experience, knowledge, skills, education, and location. These factors can cause your compensation to vary.