Stitch Fix · 3 hours ago
Manager, Data & AI Platform Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$146K/yr - $195K/yr
5+ years expStitch Fix, Inc. is the leading online personal styling service that helps people discover styles they love. They are seeking a Manager of Data & AI Platform Engineering to lead the team that manages engineers on core data, machine learning, and generative AI platforms, driving technical execution for AI-powered, data-driven experiences across the company.
ApparelE-CommerceFashionRetail
Responsibilities
Lead in a player-coach capacity in execution for Stitch Fix’s next-gen Data, ML, and GenAI platforms - building a unified, secure and scalable architecture for semantic search, retrieval-based intelligence, multi-model orchestration, and agent automation, while operationalizing GenAI through safe, performant, and production-ready systems that power real-world client and employee experiences
Contribute towards modernization of data and ML foundations to support unified signals, adaptive models, experimentation velocity, and scalable AI/ML workloads
Provide foundational APIs, SDKs, frameworks, and self-service tools that make it easy for data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and application teams to build and deploy AI solutions quickly, safely, and at scale
Partner with Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams to translate Data/ML/GenAI platform capabilities into production-grade features and intelligent experiences that deliver measurable business value
Drive responsible AI and data adoption by creating reusable templates, documentation, and enablement programs, and by partnering closely with technology and business teams to identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities for personalization, automation, and intelligence
Contribute towards improving governance practices including data contracts, lineage, metric definitions, access policies, and responsible AI guardrails - for trust, safety, and compliance
Ensure operational excellence through platform reliability, performance, observability, cost efficiency, and simplification of legacy systems
Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams fostering a culture of clarity, excellence, and trust
Balance speed of innovation with platform stability, ensuring engineering efforts are tightly aligned to business priorities and long-term client value
Qualification
Required
5+ years in software, data, ML, or platform engineering; 1+ years leading engineering individual contributors is a plus
Demonstrated success contributing towards large-scale data platforms, ML platforms, or AI/GenAI platforms in cloud environments
Strong software engineering foundation, with experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and resilient, high-quality APIs and services using modern programming languages and cloud-native architectures
Track record operating and evolving modern data infrastructure, including some of the following: distributed compute and storage technologies (Spark, Trino, Iceberg), real-time processing frameworks (Kafka/Flink), metadata / catalog systems, and Kubernetes-based orchestration
Expertise across the ML lifecycle - feature engineering, training pipelines, model deployment and serving, monitoring, validation, fine-tuning, and MLOps best practices
Proven capability in building self-service platform abstractions and tooling that enable teams to develop, experiment, and deploy data and ML products efficiently
Experience with modern GenAI architectures - semantic retrieval, knowledge-grounded indexing, LLM orchestration, agent workflows, and evaluation frameworks
Strategic thinker able to align platform investments with business priorities and emerging AI opportunities
Potential to be a strong people leader with a track record of contributing to make inclusive, high-performing engineering teams
Excellent communicator who can influence both technical and business stakeholders across domains
Preferred
Familiarity with modern ML frameworks like PyTorch and Ray is a plus
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Other benefits
Company
Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22)
2024 (18)
2023 (17)
2022 (45)
2021 (34)
2020 (30)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$54.35MKey Investors
Benchmark
2017-11-17IPO
2017-11-09Series Unknown· $11.85M
2014-06-10Series C· $25M
Leadership Team
Katrina Lake
Founder, CEO --> Executive Chairperson
Matt Baer
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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