
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
GEICO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California, Maryland, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSDLCSparkSQLTensorflow
About the role
- As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will be the overall tech lead of a single AI/Machine Learning team, responsible for the tech design and tech health of the team.
- You will build and architect scalable and reliable AIML solutions that align with the company's tech paved path and stakeholder requirements.
- Develop and implement Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices for machine learning projects, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable systems from model development to production deployment.
- Expected to stay hands-on coding about 70% of the time.
- Define the product roadmap for machine learning solutions and establish feature backlogs.
- Prioritize key ML features in collaboration with product managers, aligning them with business objectives and technical feasibility.
- Own the complete lifecycle of ML models, including monitoring, retraining, finetuning and managing versions of models to ensure they continue to meet business needs over time.
- Guide and mentor machine learning engineers, promote best practices in software engineering, model development, and deployment. Lead technical decision-making processes and foster collaboration within the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field; an advanced degree (master’s or Ph.D.) is highly desirable.
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience in machine learning and software engineering.
- Deep proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or similar, with a strong emphasis on coding excellence.
- Proficiency in AIML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Langchain, langraph, etc.
- Experience with SQL, Spark, and scripting languages such as Python for data processing and model development.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies such as Docker, as well as orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Proven experience in deploying machine learning systems in a production environment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability.
- Extensive experience with object-oriented design (OOD), design patterns, and writing clean, maintainable code.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and the challenges associated with scaling machine learning models in production.
- Expertise in implementing MLOps practices, including setting up continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), automated testing, and deployment pipelines for machine learning models.
- Strong understanding of system architecture, performance optimization, and the ability to design fault-tolerant systems that handle large-scale data and high-volume requests.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining ETL pipelines, streamlining data collection, transformation, and storage for model development.
- Proficient in containerizing applications using Docker and managing deployment and scaling using Kubernetes or similar orchestrators.
- Experience setting up monitoring and logging systems for tracking model performance in production environments and ensuring efficient resource utilization.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
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Hard skills
machine learningsoftware engineeringPythonJavaTensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learnSQLSparkMLOps
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationtechnical decision-makingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePh.D.