Machine Learning Team Lead

Modulate

Machine Learning Team Lead leading ML research and engineering at Modulate. Overseeing the growth of the team focused on conversational voice intelligence solutions.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeSomerville • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudPythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and support Modulate’s machine learning research and engineering team
Ensure the team is aligned with business priorities and product needs
Help grow team capability through hiring, mentoring, and skill development
Maintain high team morale and an effective, collaborative culture
Drive clarity on feasibility, prioritization, and estimation of ML work
Ensure Modulate continues to ship high-quality, impactful ML models
Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and executives (CTO, CEO, VP Product/Design) on ML strategy and priorities
Deeply understand the team’s models and research to guide technical direction
Help prioritize research and engineering efforts based on impact and feasibility
Support the team in designing, training, and shipping machine learning models
Mentor researchers and engineers and support their technical growth
Participate in hiring and team expansion efforts
Communicate model performance and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Optionally contribute directly to ML research and engineering work as an IC when needed
Ensure strong collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience conducting machine learning research and shipping models
Experience collaborating closely with other researchers (peer, lead, or mentor level)
Experience communicating research externally (papers, conferences, etc.)
Strong experience with Python and PyTorch
Ability to understand and guide complex ML systems and tradeoffs
Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
Ability to align technical work with business priorities
Nice to Have
Prior experience managing ML researchers or ML engineering teams
Experience working with audio models or speech systems (ASR, TTS, etc.)
Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
Experience in fast-paced startup environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary + equity
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible PTO with strong culture of taking it
Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
Hybrid work with core in-office days and flexible remote options
Leadership and technical learning sessions
Career development and continued growth support
Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningPythonPyTorchML modelsaudio modelsspeech systemsASRTTScloud infrastructureAWS

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsmentoringcollaborationteam moraleskill developmentalignment with business prioritiesclarity on feasibilityprioritization