Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Decision Engine/Performance Platform)

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in the positive impact of sports on lives. We are a leading omnichannel retailer with over 850 locations and multiple brands, including DICK’S, House of Sport, Golf Galaxy, and Public Lands. Founded in 1948, we have grown into a $13B company by inspiring, supporting, and equipping athletes and outdoor enthusiasts. We are investing in our future to become the best sports company in the world, building an ultimate athlete data set to power personalized experiences through advanced technology, data, and analytics.

This role is for a passionate technologist with experience in AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Analysis. You will be a key technical leader driving enterprise impact and shaping the future of our leading sports retail company. You will collaborate with a highly skilled team of Machine Learning engineers and Scientists to co-create enterprise-grade AI capabilities.

As the Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will be instrumental in our athlete and teammate transformation, delivering a best-in-class customer experience through advanced intelligent decisioning tools powered by AI/GenAI and Machine Learning. This is an exceptional opportunity to transform omnichannel enterprise decision-making by building foundational AI/GenAI capabilities and achieve career-defining work.

There are two specific openings:

• Decision Engine: Emphasis on building enterprise decisioning systems using AI and integrating across multiple enterprise systems for decision delivery.
• Performance Platform: Focus on building sports mechanics and performance-related experiences using AI.

Job Purpose

This role requires an emerging technical leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) with strong experience in traditional Machine Learning algorithms and a deep understanding of cutting-edge AI/GenAI methods used in recommender systems, enterprise decisioning tools, and/or computer vision/sports mechanics. As a technical leader, you will influence critical enterprise technical strategies in Machine Learning/AI and related integration spaces (frontend, DSP, backend data systems, etc.). You will partner with product, business, and engineering leads to design systems for future growth and scale, and help them understand the possibilities of AI technology through deep technical design.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead ML architecture and model deployment strategies for both batch and streaming use cases.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of machine learning solutions.
• Optimize and improve the performance of existing machine learning models and systems.
• Design Cloud deployment architecture for deploying ML models as APIs for real-time inference with Caching.
• Develop and maintain APIs for machine learning models.

Company Information

Founded in 1948, DICK’S Sporting Goods is a leading omnichannel retailer with over 850 locations representing multiple brands. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce and inspiring, supporting, and equipping athletes and outdoor enthusiasts. We are on a journey to become the best sports company in the world by leveraging technology, data, and analytics to build next-gen tools and platforms.