Associate Director, Machine Learning (core Algorithms)

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Machine Learning & Research

Associate Director, Machine Learning (Core Algorithms) at WHOOP, leading teams that build and ship cloud-based ML models for physiological data analysis (sleep, recovery, training insights) in a consumer product. Focus on scaling production algorithms, improving accuracy, and maturing ML development practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the technical vision, execution, and organizational health of this team.
  2. Drive the evolution of our core production algorithms such as workout detection, strain, and sleep staging toward higher accuracy, better member experiences, and more mature development practices.
  3. Partner closely with ML Platform, Sensor Intelligence, Research, Product, and Software Engineering to define what WHOOP algorithms can enable — not just how they perform technically, but how they show up for members.
  4. This is a role for someone who has built and shipped physiological ML at scale in a consumer product, who has a deep product instinct for what algorithms mean to end users, and who knows how to elevate an ML organization's practices: raising the bar on tooling, processes, and standards to match the ambition of the work.

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning
  • Algorithm Development
  • Team Leadership
  • Product Instinct
  • ML Operations
  • Consumer Products

Nice to have

  • Physiological Data Analysis
  • Cloud Computing
  • Sensor Data Integration
  • Software Engineering Best Practices

What the JD emphasized

  • built and shipped physiological ML at scale in a consumer product
  • elevate an ML organization's practices

Other signals

  • lead teams responsible for cloud-based algorithmic intelligence
  • transform physiological data into sleep, recovery, and training insights
  • evolve core production algorithms toward higher accuracy
  • elevate an ML organization's practices