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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Company | Orita |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
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Salary | $180000 – $250000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | PhD |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, including at least 3 years working on ML systems
- Deep knowledge of modern machine learning algorithms (tree-based methods, deep learning architectures, transformers/LLMs)
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost or equivalent frameworks
- Track record building production-scale ML infrastructures, ideally using GCP (Vertex AI, KubeFlow, BigQuery, etc.)
- Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and distributed training (Spark, Ray, Dask, etc.)
- Strong proficiency in Python (numpy, pandas, etc.)
- Experience with scalable data processing (Spark, Ray, BigQuery)
- Comfortable with advanced experimentation techniques
- Understanding of performance measurement in real-world deployments
- Excellent communication—able to explain complex ML concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Self-starter mentality with the ability to own projects from ideation to deployment, picking up and learning new technologies as needed
Responsibilities
- Design, train, and deploy models that directly power our marketing-focused products, primarily for marketing use cases
- Architect and maintain robust, scalable, MLOps pipelines to ensure reliable training, serving, and monitoring of models in production
- Drive continuous improvement using A/B testing, uplift modeling, causal inference, and other advanced experimentation frameworks to validate and refine model performance
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including the CTO and Director of Data, to align on product goals and foster best practices for machine learning and data engineering across the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with marketing technology or ads is a strong plus
- Experience with experimental design and methods such as causal inference or uplift modeling
- Exposure to modeling with LLMs and modern AI tooling
- Productionizing Reinforcement Learning and Bandit algorithms
- Ph.D in a technical field
- Experience in a fast-paced or startup environment
- You live in or near New York City.