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Leads Deal Desk within Strategic Finance, owning revenue adjustments, deal economics, approval structures, financial modeling, accruals, cash-flow monitoring, and performance analysis for standard and complex commercial agreements. Partners with GTM, Finance, and senior leadership, presents recommendations, maintains approval governance, and manages a Senior Analyst. Requires strong judgment, revenue recognition knowledge, commercial finance expertise, and executive communication skills.

Manage technical accounting activities, including researching complex transactions, drafting accounting memos, maintaining policies, implementing new standards, supporting equity accounting, preparing financial statements and disclosures, and assisting audits. The role requires collaboration with Legal, FP&A, and business teams on contracts and billing structures, along with expertise in US GAAP and public accounting experience.

Develop and maintain production machine learning models, build scalable training and serving technologies, optimize real-time and batch ML pipelines, and monitor model performance and drift. The role involves deep neural networks, recommendation systems, automated retraining, ML research, engineering excellence, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. Candidates need 6+ years of industry ML experience, strong coding skills, and experience deploying neural networks at scale.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Own the strategy, business case, experimentation roadmap, and launch of Liftoff’s zero-to-one e-commerce advertising platform. Lead product development from beta toward general availability, partnering with engineering, machine learning, legal, finance, sales, and customers. Responsibilities include optimizing funnel performance, defining traffic quality standards, managing identity and attribution architecture, overseeing e-commerce integrations, guiding go-to-market strategy, and making data-driven scaling, pivot, or shutdown decisions.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Design, prototype, and productionize generative AI features and agentic workflows. Build Python services, TypeScript/React UIs, data pipelines, evaluation and instrumentation, and safeguards. Partner with product and stakeholders to measure impact, ensure reliability, and mentor engineers.