Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Job description

Meet the Team

You’ll join a cross-functional AI engineering group working at the intersection of engineering, product, and data science to bring advanced AI capabilities into real-world production systems. The team focuses on building scalable AI/ML and Generative AI platforms and services that power intelligent features, agentic workflows, and data-driven products.

We operate across the full lifecycle — from early experimentation and prototyping to production-grade deployment, scaling, and long-term system reliability. Innovation, strong engineering fundamentals, and applied AI excellence are core to how we work.

Your Impact

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a key role in translating AI innovation into scalable, reliable systems that deliver real business value.

You will:

• Partner with engineering, product, and data science teams to convert requirements into prototypes and production-ready AI systems.
• Build, deploy, and scale AI/ML and Generative AI services, taking solutions from experimentation through full production.
• Design and operate high-performance AI systems, optimizing for inference latency, throughput, and cost efficiency at scale.
• Drive adoption of agentic AI architectures, LLM-powered features, and modern ML platform capabilities.
• Proactively identify innovation opportunities, explore emerging AI/ML approaches, and turn them into concrete technical proposals.
• Stay current with AI/ML advancements and apply relevant innovations to active initiatives.
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