# Lead Machine Learning Engineer – Recommendation Systems

GRAI is a social music app out of Warsaw, currently in alpha. We’re building new ways to listen and respond through music - focusing on the social, human interactions that only happen when people are connected on both ends. To make those connections truly resonant, we’re looking for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to architect, build, and scale our recommendation and discovery engines. You’ll own the technical roadmap for our RecSys stack, transforming raw user behavior and social signals into deeply personalized, real-time experiences. What You’ll Do Technical Leadership: Define the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for our recommendation and personalization engines. System Architecture: Design and oversee the implementation of scalable retrieval, ranking, and re-ranking pipelines capable of handling massive user behavior and content data. End-to-End Ownership: Lead the development of robust ML infrastructure, including automated data processing, feature stores, MLOps, and real-time model monitoring. Mentorship & Culture: Mentor and coach a talented team of ML engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and rigorous experimen

- **Id**: 1260145
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/grai-lead-machine-learning-engineer-recommendation-systems>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Warsaw, Poland
- **Countries**: PL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-01T11:58:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T06:24:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 132
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3778
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recommendation Systems, AI Agents, Generative Audio & Music

## Company

- **Id**: 1836931
- **Name**: GRAI
- **Domain**: grai.fm
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/grai-fm>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 68000
- **Max usd**: 134000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 15

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **Feature Store** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 132

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T20:10:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.332
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 132
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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