Provide technical leadership for CarGurus’ recommendation platform, defining architecture and building scalable personalized ranking and discovery systems. Partner with Data Science to productionize machine learning models, improve experimentation and recommendation quality, and deliver AI-powered consumer experiences. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, improve reliability and observability, make organization-wide technical decisions, write code, mentor engineers, and uphold quality, security, and operational standards.

Lead technical direction for consumer-facing AI initiatives serving 45 million monthly visitors. Design, build, deploy, and operate full-stack agentic and LLM applications using Python, LangChain, LangGraph, and Langfuse. Guide AI infrastructure, evaluation, observability, scalability, and tooling decisions; establish engineering patterns and platform roadmaps; mentor engineers; collaborate with Product, UX, Analytics, and data teams; and document architectural decisions and best practices.

The Manager of Data Science will lead a team focused on machine learning model development, team management, and cross-functional collaboration to advance product goals.