New comment by jfeola in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

Estee Lauder Companies | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Long Island City - NY | Hybrid | Full-Time

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you're a player-coach: a strong hands-on contributor who also sets standards, reviews others' work, authors the designs others build against, and mentors the team. You design, build, test, and deploy production AI products and the platform beneath them, and you shape how we build and integrate AI systems — working with engineers, scientists, product managers, and domain experts to turn ambiguous problems into reliable, scalable deliverables. The core of this role is engineering: agentic AI products and their platform, including stateful, transactional services where reliability and data-modeling rigor matter. Classical ML, statistics, and experimentation are valued and let us take on predictive and inference work when the roadmap calls for it — but you may spend long stretches purely on AI-product and platform engineering, so we're looking for someone energized by that work.

Interview process: Recruiter call, meet hiring manager

https://careers.elcompanies.com/careers/job/1168273194779