Machine Learning Engineer I (US)
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Job Summary
We’re looking for an early-career Machine Learning Engineer to help take models built by our Data Science team and turn them into reliable, production-ready services. As a member of our Data Engineering team, you will play a critical role in reviewing, optimizing, and deploying AI/ML models into production environments. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers and data scientists, contributing to model packaging, training, deployment, integration, testing, and monitoring—while growing your MLOps and software engineering skills.
What You'll Do:
- Partner with Data Science to package models for deployment and integrate them into our products and internal services.
- Implement and improve ML deployment and inference workflows (batch and/or real-time), including automation and CI/CD patterns with guidance from senior engineers.
- Build and maintain API endpoints or services that expose model predictions, including input validation, error handling, and documentation.
- Write tests (unit/performance/integration) to validate model behavior and service reliability; help create repeatable validation checks and release processes.
- Instrument services with logging/metrics and help monitor production behavior; participate in incident triage and troublesh...