Lead AI Engineer
Skills
About the role
About Mirakl:
Founded in 2012, Mirakl has been at the forefront of marketplace innovation, empowering every business to compete in the platform economy.
Today, Mirakl's operating system combines an enterprise marketplace solution (Mirakl Platform) that enables retailers and B2B organizations to launch, scale, and operate marketplaces and dropship, AI-powered multichannel selling (Mirakl Connect), retail media (Mirakl Ads) and an agentic commerce infrastructure (Mirakl Nexus).
With dual headquarters in Boston and Paris, Mirakl helps a global ecosystem of 450+ marketplaces (B2C and B2B) and a network of over 100k third-party marketplace sellers. Brands like Macy's, Decathlon, Carrefour, Asos, and Airbus Helicopters use Mirakl to grow their businesses in new and remarkable ways.
For more information: www.mirakl.com.
Mirakl in Numbers:
️ Founded in 2012 | Member of French Tech Next40
750+ employees in 9 offices worldwide: Paris, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Boston, London, Munich, New York, Sydney, Tokyo
350+ Mirakl Tech teams members mainly based in France
️ 5 Saas Solutions
Our Values:
Working at Mirakl means accelerating your career alongside ambitious, passionate, and supportive colleagues. We're proud of the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences that make our teams unique.
Our 5 values guide how we collaborate:
Work Hard Together: Teamwork and collaboration are the foundation of our success
Get Things Done: We prioritize action and efficiency for impactful results
Go Above & Beyond: We tackle challenges proactively and always aim for excellence
Succeed Through Expertise: Knowledge sharing and continuous learning are core to our culture
Satisfy & Empower Clients: We're committed to our clients' success
Mission
Lead the design, development, and adoption of AI systems within a strategic business domain. You will be part of the AI team, working inside one of our division (Marketing or finance for example) to lead their AI transformation.
You will combine deep AI engineering expertise with product and business understanding to identify high-impact opportunities, define roadmaps, and deliver measurable outcomes.
As the AI technical lead for your domain, you will drive architecture decisions, engineering excellence, and AI adoption across teams and stakeholders. Examples of domains include: Sales, GTM and Marketing or Finance & Legal
This is a permanent position (CDI) based in our Boston office, with 4 days on-site per week.
Why Now, Why Mirakl
Generative AI and AI Agents are fundamentally reshaping commerce software.
At Mirakl, AI is becoming a core part of our product strategy. From Catalog Transformer and content generation to AI Agents and Agentic Commerce, we are building the next generation of commerce software.
We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to transform cutting-edge AI technologies into reliable, scalable, and measurable products used by leading enterprises worldwide.
You won't be joining a company that's thinking about AI. You'll be joining one that's already building it.
What You'll Do
1. Own AI Strategy for Your Domain
Define the AI vision and roadmap for your domain
Identify high-value opportunities with Product Managers and business leaders
Prioritize investments based on business impact
2. Lead AI System Development
Design and build production-grade AI systems
Drive architecture decisions
Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability
3. Drive Adoption & Business Impact
Work closely with end users
Measure adoption and outcomes
Accelerate AI transformation across your domain
4. Establish Technical Excellence
Promote best practices for evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability
Review designs and mentor engineers
Raise the quality bar across initiatives
5. Grow AI Capability
Mentor AI Engineers and Agent Builders
Share knowledge and reusable components
Build AI expertise within your organization
Success Metrics
Business impact delivered by AI initiatives
Adoption within the domain
Technical quality and reliability
Team capability growth
Profile
7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI
Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems
Ability to influence Product and Business decisions
Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives
Tech Stack
Languages: Python and SQL
AI Stack: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Open-source models
Agentic & Retrieval: LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP and Vector Databases
Infrastructure: AWS or GCP, Docker and Kubernetes
Feel free to add a link to your GitHub in your CV so we can understand what you have worked on!
#LI-Hybrid
We welcome collaborators with their diverse perspectives and experiences to power us forward. These often far exceed conventional job requirements and help us create a culture of continuous learning. If you're ready to join a global leader powering digital transformation for 450+ of the world's most innovative retailers and B2B organizations.
As part of our recruitment process, Mirakl processes your personal data to review and manage your application and, where appropriate, to consider your profile for future opportunities. You can exercise your data protection rights at any time, and as further detailed in our policies. For more information about how we process your personal data and your rights, please consult our Recruitment Privacy Notice, here in English and here in French.
We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to help streamline our hiring process, including screening applications, analyzing resumes, and assessing responses. While AI helps us work efficiently, all final hiring decisions are made by humans. For more information, visit our AI Guidelines for Candidates and Interviews.
Compensation
This Machine Learning Engineer role pays $150k-$190k/yr. Within typical range for machine learning engineer roles in United States.
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