Engineering Manager, Detectors (Zurich)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for Lakera's detector and defense models
• ▹Lead and grow the Detectors Group (~12 engineers today), recruiting ML and software engineering talent and developing senior ICs and tech leads
• ▹Partner closely with Product, Research, GTM, and other Engineering teams, shaping the detection roadmap
• ▹Drive architectural and modeling decisions across production defense systems, ensuring quality, reliability, latency, and scalability
• ▹Establish technical and operational processes for experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and iteration
• ▹Design the organization for rapid growth without sacrificing execution velocity

Requirements

• ▹10+ years of experience across machine learning, applied AI, and software systems at a senior level
• ▹Comfortable going deep technically while also operating at the organizational and strategic level
• ▹Strong mentor who enjoys elevating people and building leadership capacity
• ▹Experienced managing managers and leading multi-layered teams
• ▹Humble, curious, and motivated by building the best solutions rather than ego
• ▹Experienced in scaling teams and systems in high-growth environments

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building ML systems for security, trust and safety, or adversarial domains
• ▹Background in deploying ML systems under strict latency, reliability, or adversarial constraints

Soft skills

About the company

Lakera, a Check Point company, is building the security layer for the GenAI and agentic AI era. The Detectors Group owns the core machine learning systems that power Lakera's defenses, delivering the fastest and broadest threat detection for GenAI and agentic AI applications.