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ClayClayNew York, NY

Machine Learning Engineer

Build and ship production machine-learning systems that learn from customer data and behavior, including recommendations, LLM-powered features, evaluation systems, and ML infrastructure. The role requires 5+ years of ML engineering or ML-heavy software engineering experience and strong production systems expertise.

170k – 300k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build learning loops into the product using user behavior and business data.
  • Design and ship recommendation-first experiences from prototype through production.
  • Build the ML and data platform, including data lake foundations and serving infrastructure.
  • Evaluate tools that can accelerate the product vision.
  • Collaborate with data science and data platform teams on a common data language.
  • Build evaluation systems and online monitoring to ensure learning features are trustworthy and improve the user experience.
  • Partner with product teams across the company to make product surfaces smarter.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering or ML-heavy software engineering.
  • Experience shipping models and ML-powered features to production.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals, including writing production-quality code and owning systems.
  • Experience with LLMs in production, including prompting, evaluations, guardrails, or fine-tuning, and/or classical ML such as ranking, recommendations, or propensity models.
  • Experience building data-intensive systems, including pipelines, feature infrastructure, retrieval, or serving.
  • Pragmatic product sense and ability to optimize for user experience and business impact.
  • Comfort working with ambiguity and building platforms from the ground up.
  • Passion for the AI space and current innovations.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience building recommendation systems, search ranking, or personalization.
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks for LLM or ML systems.
  • Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, and data lake architectures.
  • Experience in fast-moving startup environments.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Employees can work with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.

Skills

Machine LearningLLMsclassical mlRecommendation Systemssearch rankingpersonalizationPythonData Pipelinesfeature infrastructureretrievalmodel servingSnowflakedbtDagsterdata lakes

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