Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Responsibilities

● Lead the development of core AI/ML models and algorithms that drive key product use cases

● Actively participate in cross-functional discussions and strategic decisions related to AI research directions and product roadmaps.

● Collaborate with fellow technical leaders to ensure the successful and timely delivery of AI/ML models and service integration.

● Stay up to date with the latest research and developments in the field of AI/ML, and ensure that these advancements are properly incorporated into our technology roadmap.

● Develop production code and advocate for the best coding and engineering practices.

● Participate and influence full lifecycle development from ideation and data exploration to deployment, monitor, and optimize AI/ML models in production

● Participate in project planning, review, and retrospective sessions.

● Identify and mitigate risks in our plans and executions, especially at the intersection of business and engineering

● Collaborate with other data teams to improve our data infrastructure, including models, visualizations, and experimentation capabilities.

● Demonstrated experience in leading impactful AI product development at scale.

Qualifications

● 10 or more years of ML and software experience

● Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to dive into evaluation metrics, model architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations

● Expertise with ML pipelines, algorithms, statistical methods, and analytics to solve real-world engineering problems

● Proficient in SQL, Python, Java, PySpark, and experienced with Snowflake, AWS SageMaker, DBT, and Airflow

● Experience building and maintaining fault-tolerant, high-performing data pipelines and ensuring seamless AI/ML algorithm execution in production

● Strong communicator who simplifies complex problems and develops impactful, creative solutions

● Ability to explain deep technical decisions and implementation to leadership and less technical partners