Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Company Overview :

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose : to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The Opportunity : Technology

Our technology team works fast and smart. With San Francisco as our home, we take bringing new tech to market seriously, developing the latest in mobile technologies, scalable architecture, and the coolest in-store client experience. We love what we do and we have fun doing it. The Technology group is comprised of motivated self-starters and true team players that are absolutely integral to the growth of Sephora and our future success.

Your role at Sephora...

This is an opportunity for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to come in and drive AI / ML initiatives for the enterprise. Sephora continues to inspire our loyal customers in beauty space, and AI / ML is redefining the way we inspire our customers.

Some exciting initiatives in action :

• Generative AI use cases to help our customers discover products by developing AI agents
• Adopting reinforcement learning for hyper personalization
• Building RAG based knowledge bases for AI agents
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) Enablement to accelerate AI adoption

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will operationalize innovative AI / ML solutions and work alongside other team members like Product Manager, Enterprise Architect, ML Engineers, Data scientists and Business to architect, design, build and productionalize AI / ML models. You will be also responsible for integrating AI / ML solutions into operational products. This hands-on technical role demands excellent Data Science, ML engineering and ML ops / LLM Ops knowledge and can demonstrate best practices in the industry. Come be a part of a team that is starting this new journey.

We are looking for someone who is a technology-agnostic polymath—committed to a lifelong journey of learning and exploration of new scientific ideas—and will bring thoughtful perspectives, empathy, creativity, and a positive attitude to solve problems at scale. This role is ideal for someone looking to extend their Data Science, machine learning and software engineering skills to lead an AI / ML engineering team and create impact by delivering AI / ML capabilities at scale.

Responsibilities :

We're excited about you if you have :

Knowledge of cloud platforms, for example :

While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy…

You can unleash your creativity, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military / veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.

The annual base salary range for this position is $186,390.00- $207,100.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and / or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount / perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.

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