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Head of AI

TILT

TILT

Software Engineering, Data Science
Waterloo, NY, USA
Posted on Jan 12, 2025

Tilt 🛸

Our mission is to make fashion accessible to all and inspire everyone to dress a little better. We believe e-commerce is in a rut, with brands lost in a decades-long void, lacking innovation, and mindlessly redesigning websites without fixing the real issue — making shopping fun and affordable.

Today, we are the UK's biggest live shopping platform focused on making shopping a joyful, social experience that brings people together and helps everyone level up their style. We're growing fast and hiring innovative problem solvers to build the future of shopping.

Your Mission 🫵

We’re hiring a Head of AI to own and drive AI/ML initiatives at Tilt. You will be building the AI team at Tilt while also being hands-on and leading by example, directly contributing (coding) and providing guidance and technical mentorship to the team. You must demonstrate technical excellence and an aptitude for leading a team of smart, curious people to achieve magical results.

What You'll Do 👷

  • Hire and structure the AI team at Tilt

  • Design, develop and deploy the first-of-their-kind AI-driven products for e-commerce—from scratch

  • Work closely with product, engineering, marketing and design teams to identify and execute high-impact features

  • Build robust, scalable infrastructure for AI at Tilt

  • Provide valuable technical guidance for ML Engineers, researchers and product engineers on building world-class AI systems

  • Dig deep into existing products, develop plans for improvement and collaborate with the team to execute

Requirements 📋

You must be an ambitious, curious, relentless and no ego problem-solver excited to build the future of shopping. Additionally:

  • Candidates must either relocate to London, UK (visa sponsorship provided) or be able to work UK hours

  • Experience taking ML systems from 0 to 1 to large-scale, serving millions of users (LLMs, rec sys, computer vision or NLP)

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in ML/AI engineering, with proven expertise in building and deploying solutions at scale

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM major (mathematics, computer science, engineering)

  • Expertise in Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow and ML frameworks

  • Comfortable working with our stack (or similar): AWS, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Snowflake

  • Ability to work autonomously to deliver results at a rapid pace

Bonus

  • Experience with high-traffic, real-time platforms

  • 3+ years of experience in high-growth, fast-paced environments

Perks & Benefits ➕

  • Competitive Salary

  • Stock Options

  • MacBook Pro + Tech Budget

Want to join?

Apply with your CV and provide authentic answers to the questions in the application form.