- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience); 10+ years of industry experience including experience as a Senior ML Engineer or higher.
- 4+ years of management experience, including managing managers or team leads. Track record of building engineering culture by enabling the people around you.
- Evidence of shipping production ML systems that other teams depend on, with real operational weight. Working knowledge of model serving, CI/CD for ML, observability, and cost tradeoffs even if you're not writing code daily.
- Experience translating technical vision into a roadmap your teams executed against, with evidence of course-correcting when priorities shifted.
- Strong collaboration across ML, platform, product, and game development teams; track record of alignment across org boundaries. Experience making AI accessible to teams without deep ML expertise.