URBN Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Job description

Role Summary URBN is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer (GenAI) to join the development of AI-powered visual experiences, with a primary focus on building and operationalizing image and video generation systems. We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our mission of integrating generative AI solutions with creative tools and production workflows. In this role, you will own the engineering side of multi-model generative pipelines, turning research prototypes into reliable, scalable services that power AI-first innovations across our digital ecosystem. You will collaborate with a talented cross-functional team comprising data scientists, UX designers, product managers, creative partners, and domain experts to deliver significant business impact. This role will focus on making generative systems robust, efficient, and production-ready. The ideal candidate brings deep software engineering fundamentals, comfort with agentic AI tooling, and enough generative AI fluency to wrangle prompts, orchestrate multi-step visual workflows, and reason about output quality, even if they are not the one doing final model tuning or evaluation design. If you are energized by the interse...