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Lakera
13d ago

Director of Engineering, Detectors Group(m/w/x)

Zürich
Full-timeOn-siteSenior
AI/ML

Description

In this role, you will lead the Detectors Group, shaping the technical vision and driving the development of advanced threat detection models. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include mentoring leaders, collaborating across teams, and ensuring high standards in AI security defenses.

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Requirements

  • 20+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, and software systems
  • Technical depth and organizational strategic capability
  • Strong mentoring skills and leadership capacity building
  • Experience managing managers and leading multi-layered teams
  • Humility, curiosity, and motivation for building optimal solutions
  • Energized by solving problems at the intersection of people, technology, and organization
  • Experience scaling teams and systems in high-growth environments
  • Experience building ML systems for security, trust and safety, or adversarial domains
  • Background in deploying ML systems under strict latency, reliability, or adversarial constraints

Work Experience

20 years

Tasks

  • Own the technical vision and roadmap for detection models
  • Lead and scale the Detectors Group from 15 to approximately 30 members
  • Manage and develop engineering managers and senior individual contributors
  • Mentor senior leaders and individual contributors to enhance technical excellence
  • Collaborate with Product, Research, GTM, and Engineering teams to align detection capabilities
  • Drive architectural and modeling decisions for production defenses
  • Ensure model quality, reliability, latency, and scalability in customer deployments
  • Establish technical and operational processes for experimentation and deployment
  • Design the organization to support rapid growth while maintaining execution speed

Languages

EnglishBusiness Fluent

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