About the Role
JetBrains is evolving its developer tools into a unified, AI-native platform. This platform will serve as the execution and governance layer for AI-driven development, addressing challenges like governance, security, and cost control. We are seeking an experienced ML leader to guide this transformation, integrating research, technical excellence, and product focus.
Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and champion high-impact AI projects aligned with JetBrains' product strategy and delivering measurable business value.
- Lead a team of approximately 50 people across multiple AI initiatives, including hiring and developing team leads, ML engineers, and MLOps specialists.
- Set the technical direction for JetBrains’ ML roadmap, translating cutting-edge AI advancements into practical product innovations.
- Ensure projects deliver on commitments and create measurable value.
- Set technical standards, architectural direction, and best practices for ML development.
Requirements
- Ability to balance long-term R&D with short-term product needs.
- Track record of shipping production ML systems that users actually use.
- Experience building business cases for technical projects.
- Deep understanding of modern ML infrastructure, LLMs, and AI tooling.
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills and comfort working with senior leaders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent management and communication skills.
- Attention to detail.
Skills
- ML infrastructure
- LLMs
- AI tooling
- Distributed training of multi-billion parameter models
- CI systems
- Workflow automation
- Experiment tracking
- Kotlin programming language
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced ML leader
About the Company
- At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started back in 2000, we have been striving to make the world’s most robust and effective developer tools. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.
- JetBrains is evolving beyond standalone developer tools toward a unified, AI-native platform for software development.
- Our goal is to build a platform that enables companies to adopt AI in software development in a structured, scalable, and economically efficient manner without locking them into closed ecosystems.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We know great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. That’s why we do our best to create an open and inclusive workplace – one that welcomes everyone regardless of their background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation.
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