Engineering Lead, Platform & AI

Job description

About Daydream Daydream is the first chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion. Designed to redefine how people search and discover fashion, Daydream offers a personalized, conversational experience powered by advanced AI and natural language understanding. Backed by top-tier investors including Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and True Ventures, our team is committed to shaping the future of shopping. About the role: As the Engineering Lead, Platform & AI , you'll own multiple backend systems at Daydream: the catalog data pipeline that powers our product index, the AI content pipeline that builds landing pages for ad campaigns, and the B2B integration layer that puts our search on partner retail sites. The work is mostly Python and Go, involves a lot of LLM integration, and what you build shows up directly in the product. What you'll do: Catalog pipeline: Own the augmentation pipeline - a multi-step Polars system that runs ML models (image analysis, hero selection, swatches via Vertex AI), normalizes sizes, appends affiliate links, and writes to Delta Lake / GCS Drive catalog quality: OOS accuracy, hero image selection, sizing coverage Build and...