Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Business teams) to build data and Machine Learning products

Take ownership of objectives and key results for your workstream, and own technical solutions in partnership with your manager

Architect and build robust systems to train, deploy, run inference, and monitor Machine Learning and AI systems at scale

Champion code quality, reusability, scalability, maintainability, and security, and provide input into strategic architecture decisions

Implement processes and tools to ensure data quality, enforce data governance policies and engineering best practices

Integrate Machine Learning and AI systems with production applications

Innovate with new approaches, staying abreast of current research and latest technologies in the broader ML engineering community

Completed BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or other quantitative field

7+ years of experience as an engineer specialized building Machine Learning systems

2+ years of technical leadership delivering machine learning solutions in partnership with engineers, scientists, and business stakeholders

Strong programming skills in Python and understanding of core computer science principles

Experience with frameworks and libraries for machine learning & AI such as scikit-learn, HuggingFace, PyTorch, Tensorflow/Keras, MLlib, etc.

Ability to design, train, and evaluate machine learning and AI models while adhering to best practices including model selection, validation, bias/variance tuning, performance assessment, sensitivity analysis, dimensionality reduction, etc.

Experience with MLOps practices such as automated model deployment, model performance monitoring, data drift detection, etc.

Experience with building batch and streaming pipelines using complex SQL, PySpark, Pandas, and similar frameworks

Experience with data warehouses (e.g., dimensional modeling), data lakes/Lakehouses, and other data architectures

Experience orchestrating complex workflows and data pipelines using Airflow or similar tools

Ability to load test deployed models at scale to identify performance bottlenecks

Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes

Experience with architecting solutions on AWS or equivalent public cloud platforms

Experience with developing data APIs, Microservices and event driven systems to integrate ML systems

Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), other generative AI modalities, and how they are applied in production

Experience in assessing and implementing new data tools to enhance the machine learning stack

Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills

Technical leadership experience and the ability to mentor and guide others

Knowledge of data mesh concepts

Knowledge in domains such as recommender systems, fraud detection, personalization, and marketing science

Knowledge of vector databases, knowledge graphs, and other approaches for organizing & storing information

Familiarity with Snowflake, RDS, DynamoDB, Kafka, Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, EMR, Sagemaker, DataDog, PagerDuty, DataCataloging tools, Data Observability tools and Data Governance tools

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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​

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