Life360

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Life360

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $175,500 - $258,500 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopKubernetesMicroservicesPythonSpark

About the role

  • Design and lead end-to-end ML systems that enhance our understanding of real-world movement and context, including destination inference, anomaly detection, and modality prediction.
  • Partner with Data Science to translate advanced modeling research into scalable production systems. Define instrumentation, evaluate performance, and guide experimentation.
  • Build and maintain ML pipelines, from signal ingestion and feature engineering through training, deployment, and real-time inference at scale.
  • Integrate ML into user-facing features, ensuring that intelligence translates into clarity, safety, and trust within our mobile experience.
  • Champion operational excellence, owning system health through model monitoring, drift detection, and continuous improvement loops.
  • Contribute to architectural strategy alongside engineering leadership, ensuring our ML systems are extensible, maintainable, and aligned with long-term platform vision.
  • Mentor and multiply—help elevate the ML and engineering craft across the broader Location team.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and shipping ML-powered systems
  • Programming & Software Engineering – Proficiency in Python, strong coding practices, version control, CI/CD.
  • Machine Learning Algorithms – Knowledge of supervised, unsupervised, deep learning, recommendation, and NLP methods.
  • Data Handling – Feature engineering, big data tools (Spark, Hadoop)
  • ML Ops & Deployment – Model serving, monitoring, pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), MLflow/SageMaker.
  • System Design & Scalability – Building low-latency, high-availability ML systems; distributed computing.
  • Experimentation & Evaluation – A/B testing, metrics selection, model validation, drift detection.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure – AWS, GCP, or Azure services for ML; APIs and microservices integration.
  • Collaboration & Communication – Partnering with product, data science, and engineering teams; translating ML into business impact.
  • Problem-Solving Mindset – Selecting appropriate ML techniques, balancing accuracy, interpretability, and cost.
  • Security & Privacy Awareness – Data compliance, ethical AI practices, privacy-preserving ML methods.
Benefits
  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
  • 401(k) plan with company matching program
  • Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
  • Flexible PTO, 13 company wide days off throughout the year
  • Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
  • Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
  • Free Tile Products

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonMachine Learning AlgorithmsFeature EngineeringModel ServingMonitoringPipelinesContainerizationDistributed ComputingA/B TestingData Compliance
Soft skills
CollaborationCommunicationProblem-Solving MindsetMentoringOperational Excellence
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