Machine Learning Engineer; Remote

Position Purpose

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer is responsible for joining a product team and contributing to the software design, algorithm design, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our users love. The engineering process is highly collaborative. Staff ML Engineers are expected to pair daily as they work through user stories and support products as they evolve.

ML Engineers may be involved in designing and implementing AI/ML algorithms to embed directly into software products. Activities may include using specific HD process techniques, integration, design, and development. The role could interface with Business Stakeholders, Technology Infrastructure teams, and Development teams to ensure that business requirements are properly met within a machine learning solution. The role may also be involved in performance tuning, testing, and product monitoring.

Other responsibilities may include performing customer outreach, designing ML educational material, and data engineering.

Staff ML Engineers will be a core player on the product team and are expected to build and grow skillsets of more junior engineers. You will also be able to drive multiple ML initiatives by directing algorithm and technology product design

• 45% Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable machine learning solutions, Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable;
  Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs;
  Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

• 15% Learning - Participates in learning activities around modern software design, machine learning, and development core practices (communities of practice);
  Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations;
  Attends conferences and learns how to apply new innovations and technologies where appropriate

• 20% Strategy and Planning - Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvement and new initiatives;
  Leads the evaluation development and recommendation of specific technology products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions that meet business and technology requirements;
  Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, security, and machine learning architectures for products;
  Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring and support;
  Participates in project planning and management across multiple efforts;
  Develops formal training courses

• 20% Support and Enablement - Fields questions from other product teams or support teams;
  Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams;
  Provides application support for software running in production;
  Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products;
  Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, message processing, and prediction quality

• This Position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr Software Engineer Manager

• This Position has 0 Direct Reports

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• 3 - 6 years of relevant work experience

• Experience to algorithms such as clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, and neural networks.

• Experience to basic statistics and regression…