Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Title

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Location

Remote

Compensation

$185,000-$250,000

ABOUT THE SHADE STORE®

At The Shade Store, we have handcrafted the finest Shades, Blinds and Drapery for 75 years. We believe designing beautiful custom window treatments should be an effortless experience, so we offer outstanding services to help our customers every step of the way, from inspiration to installation. We are always looking for friendly, passionate individuals to join our team and deliver the finest custom window treatment experience. Our team is expanding, and there has never been a more exciting time to be a part of it.

THE POSITION: Lead Machine Learning Engineer

The Shade Store is investing in machine learning to power the next era of our business: how we assign and manage customer leads, how we quote and sell custom products, and how we catch quality issues before they reach the workroom. The Lead ML Engineer sits on the Data & Analytics team and owns this capability end to end — the models, the features that feed them, and the services that serve them.

Know what you’re walking into: the data foundation for reliable ML doesn’t fully exist yet, and building it is part of the job. Our transactional systems carry legacy structures — missing relationships, integrity gaps, signals we don’t capture today. You’ll get into the weeds of our data, our application, and our organization: diagnose the gaps, specify the fixes, validate the results, then build and own the ML environment on top. This is a hands-on builder’s role for someone high-agency and pragmatic, fluent in both offline training and online serving, who wants to stand up a discipline rather than inherit one.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Foundations

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• Database architectural experience; Experience architecting and building feature stores end-to-end.
• Lead a diagnostic of our application databases to identify the legacy data issues b