Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer

This job will oversee the strategic direction and execution of machine learning projects. You will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to enhance services through innovative AI/ML solutions. Your role will involve building scalable ML pipelines, ensuring data quality, and deploying models into production environments to drive business insights and improve customer experiences.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
• Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
• Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
• Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up–to-date information for optimal results
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
• Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the strategic vision for machine learning initiatives within the team.

• Lead the development and optimization of machine learning models.

• Oversee the preprocessing and analysis of large datasets.

• Deploy and maintain ML solutions in production environments.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into products and services.

• Monitor and evaluate the performance of deployed models, making necessary adjustments.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers and data scientists.

• Ensure adherence to best practices and industry standards in ML development.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12+ years relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Deep expertise with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.

• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and tools for data processing and model deployment.

• Proven track record of leading the design, implementation, and deployment of machine learning models.