Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Lead Machine Learning Engineer leads technical implementation and adoption of AI Platform capabilities within an embedded product team while serving as a technical leader and mentor for other Machine Learning Engineers. Actively contributes to AI Platform and operations development through hands-on coding while establishing best practices, standardizing implementation patterns, and driving platform adoption. Advocates for platform solutions, ensuring consistent application of engineering standards, and accelerating AI delivery through effective platform usage and technical mentorship.

What you will do in this role:

• Partner with platform and product managers to identify and prioritize foundational platform capabilities
• Inform the definition and implementation of technical standards and patterns across the platforms and product teams
• Collaborate on technical and architectural direction for critical platform components
• Participate in technical discussions and decision-making processes for key platform features
• Mentor embedded MLEs in engineering best practices and platform tooling and adoption
• Help evaluate and make recommendations on technical approaches and new technologies
• Actively contribute to AI/MLOps development within assigned product team
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through example and technical guidance
• Implement and validate platform patterns within pod
• Help identify and solve common challenges across pods
• Balance pod-specific needs with platform standardization
• Champion platform adoption within pod and across teams
• Provide technical guidance on platform usage and implementation
• Identify opportunities for leveraging platform capabilities
• Contribute to platform feature development and improvement
• Help validate and refine platform patterns through direct implementation
• Share knowledge and best practices across the MLE team
• Implement robust CI/CD pipelines for ML models
• Develop and maintain ML systems using platform capabilities
• Ensure proper testing and validation of ML systems
• Document technical decisions and implementation patterns
• Partner with platform team to improve developer experience
• Conduct thorough code reviews with focus on platform patterns
• Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture reviews

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor's degree – Required
• Master's degree – Preferred
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on ML and AI System Engineering – Required
• Experience working as an embedded engineer in a cross-functional product team – Preferred
• Strong technical background in ML engineering with demonstrated coding expertise –Required
• Track record of driving adoption of technical platforms and developer tools –Required
• Deep Python development expertise with focus on ML systems and AI/MLOps –Required
• Proven ability to establish and maintain technical standards –Required
• Strong understanding of ML workflows and operational requirements –Required
• Hands-on experience implementing and scaling model CI/CD pipelines –Required
• Experience with modern Python development practices including type checking, testing frameworks, and package management –Required
• Experience with modern Python development practices including type checking and testing –Required
• History of successful collaboration with product teams –Required
• Understanding of ML Development Lifecycle management and MLOps best practices –Required
• Understanding of ML Monitoring and observability –Required
• Experience with LLMs and Infrastructure –Preferred
• Experience integrating with feature stores, feature caches, and model serving platforms –Preferred
• Deep understanding of ML/AI platform tooling and patterns –Preferred
• Experience with Distributed model training –Preferred
• Hands-on experience with Kubeflow, Argo, MLFlow or other ML/AI Training orchestrators –Preferred
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of ML/AI metadata tools and model registries –Preferred
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools –Preferred
• Hands-on experience building ML/AI solutions on GCP and Vertex AI –Preferred

Work Location/Schedule:

• Remote - M-F, 8am – 5pm - Central Time

Pay & Benefits:

• This position offers a Base Salary + Benefits (it does not offer an annual bonus)

Travel Required:

• This job requires travel to Nashville, TN to attend final interview, 3-day New Hire Orientation, quarterly team meetings, and other travel on as-needed basis

Visa Sponsorship:

• Not offered, now or in the future