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Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Durham, North Carolina, United States of AmericaFull-time$141k–$325k2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and AI solutions for real-world customer problems, focusing on usability, scalability, and performance.

Role type

Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer (IC)

Builds

Production ML models, AI agents, and scalable integrations for customer-facing environments

Domain

Enterprise Edge-to-Cloud / AI & Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning model deployment, AI agent development, backend programming (Python, Go), open-source ML tools (MLFlow, Spark, LangChain, Kubeflow), Kubernetes, deep learning, model fine-tuning

Preferred skills

Inference optimization, large-scale data pipelines, retrieval-augmented systems (RAG)

Responsibilities

Design and deploy ML models addressing customer problems; develop demos, POCs, and MVPs to showcase AI capabilities; integrate open-source ML tools in production; fine-tune models for accuracy and efficiency; translate requirements into actionable AI solutions; mentor junior team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC