CareerPlan

Machine Learning Engineer III

Full-time$102k–$153k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the design, development, and delivery of highly trafficked recommendation systems for Mapbox's routing cost engine, optimizing geospatial pipelines and traffic pattern analysis.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Routing & Geospatial)

Builds

Recommendation systems, ML/data pipelines, automated QA tools, and tuning algorithms for the routing cost engine.

Domain

Geospatial technology, navigation, traffic telemetry, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, distributed processing pipelines (Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Dask), statistical analysis, data quality control, cloud infrastructure management, geospatial algorithms, automated tuning, outlier detection, team leadership, code review

Preferred skills

Experience mentoring engineering teams, experience with 3D styling or in-vehicle navigation systems

Technologies

AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Dask

Responsibilities

Lead engineering teams to execute end-to-end feature implementation, design and build new ML and data pipelines, build tools for automated quality assurance and data exploration, partner with data scientists to improve models for movement/traffic patterns, mentor colleagues and participate in code reviews, participate in on-call rotation for system availability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities