Lead Machine Learning Engineer

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New York / $200000 - $220000 annum

INFO

Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $220000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Lead Machine Learning Engineer
New York City, NY - Hybrid (3 days per week onsite)

$200,000 - $220,000 Base Salary+ Bonus + RSU package available

THE COMPANY

We are partnering with a leading consumer technology and financial services organization that operates at global scale and serves hundreds of millions of users. The business leverages advanced data, machine learning, and real-time decisioning systems to deliver highly personalized customer experiences across a broad portfolio of digital products.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding machine learning engineering team at a pivotal stage of growth. The organization is investing heavily in recommendation systems, real-time personalization, machine learning platforms, and next-generation AI capabilities, offering engineers the opportunity to work with large-scale distributed systems and production-grade ML infrastructure.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure supporting machine learning training, deployment, and inference workloads.
  • Develop and optimize backend services, microservices, and cloud-native applications that power real-time machine learning systems.
  • Own and enhance ML platform capabilities across cloud infrastructure, model serving, monitoring, and operational tooling.
  • Partner closely with Data Scientists to productionize machine learning models and support real-time recommendation and personalization use cases.
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, observability, reliability, and system scalability.
  • Participate in operational ownership, incident response, and support for critical production services.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Must-Have

  • 7+ years of software engineering or machine learning engineering experience.
  • Strong backend engineering expertise with experience building distributed systems at scale.
  • Proven experience developing Scala-based microservices and production-grade backend applications.
  • Deep knowledge of AWS cloud services, including machine learning infrastructure and managed platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Strong Python programming skills.
  • Track record of owning production systems, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with machine learning infrastructure, MLOps, or model-serving platforms.
  • Knowledge of recommendation systems, personalization engines, or CTR optimization.
  • Experience with Datadog observability and monitoring.
  • Background in adtech, fintech, e-commerce, or other high-scale consumer platforms.
  • Exposure to real-time machine learning applications and online inference systems.

BENEFITS

  • Competitive base salary and annual bonus
  • Equity participation through RSUs
  • Hybrid working model
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and machine learning initiatives
  • Significant career growth and technical leadership opportunities
  • Exposure to large-scale, real-time production systems

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by submitting your CV via the Apply link on this page.

KEY TERMS

Lead Machine Learning Engineer | Machine Learning Engineering | ML Infrastructure | Scala | Python | AWS | SageMaker | Kubernetes | Docker | Terraform | CI/CD | Distributed Systems | Recommendation Systems | Real-Time Systems | MLOps | Backend Engineering | Cloud Infrastructure | Platform Engineering | Datadog | Fintech | Personalization | ML Platform | Software Engineering | Hybrid NYC | Technical Leadership

CONTACT

Tim Jonas
He/Him

Business Manager

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