# Senior Machine Learning Engineer

**Company:** [Calendly](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/calendly)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $198k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, Java, SQL, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Foundation Models, Model Fine-Tuning, Prompt Engineering, Data Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Build and operate AI-powered features end-to-end for Calendly customers, from design through deployment. Requires 6+ years applied AI/ML experience, GenAI architecture skills, and strong programming in Python/Scala/Java/SQL.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Own AI powered features from design through deployment, partnering with product, design, and engineering to scope work and define success metrics.
- Understand and share domain knowledge, answering domain specific questions for your product area and documenting what you learn for the team.
- Prioritize your work independently, balancing feature development, quality, and maintenance, and communicating tradeoffs clearly.
- Proactively seek and offer support to teammates pairing, reviewing, and collaborating to move projects forward.
- Understand and troubleshoot deployment pipelines, including build, test, and release steps for ML services and data pipelines.
- Use monitoring and observability tools to effectively triage alerts and incidents, collaborating with partners to restore service and prevent recurrence, and participate in the team's on-call rotation and incident response.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for the features and services you own, including their data contracts, SLAs, and dependencies.
- Be a frequent user of AI Tools and champion of adoption to the rest of the company.

## What we need from you
- 6+ years of industry experience in applied AI/ML and software engineering with a demonstrated track record of shipping and operating AI/ML applications in production.
- Experience working on GenAI products architecture/system design and implementation.
- Hands-on experience implementing AI/ML solutions for high-traffic, low-latency, large-data applications that produced tangible impact for end users.
- Understanding of foundation models and the open-source ecosystem, including model fine-tuning and prompt engineering for real product use cases.
- Strong programming (Python / Scala / Java / SQL etc) and data engineering skills.
- High level of ownership, and the ability to find a way to success.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary ranges: Tier 1 $237,630–$287,952; Tier 2 $217,828–$263,956; Tier 3 $198,025–$239,960.
- Top Performer Bonus program, equity awards, and competitive benefits.
- Full-time (30 hours/week) eligibility for benefits.

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