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Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer

Philadelphia, PA, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and implementing scalable machine learning systems and data-driven solutions for enterprise clients, focusing on productionizing models like recommender systems, NLP, and risk scoring.

Role type

Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer (Senior IC with team leadership)

Builds

Production-scale ML systems, agentic AI architectures, and data processing pipelines for Fortune 100 and government clients

Domain

Enterprise consulting, cloud data platforms, and advanced AI/LLM applications

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | client delivery

Required skills

Python, Scala, SQL, Spark, NoSQL, Docker, microservices, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure/GCP, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, n8n, Pydantic), multi-agent orchestration, statistics, statistical modeling, model versioning

Preferred skills

Experience with conversational UX, prompt evaluation metrics, cross-industry business requirements

Technologies

Python, Scala, SQL, Spark, NoSQL, Docker, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure SQL, Amazon RDS, LangChain, n8n, Pydantic, GPT, Claude, Mistral

Responsibilities

Strategizing with clients and cross-functional teams to implement end-to-end ML solutions; providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers; deconstructing client needs into data-driven processes; analyzing and transforming large datasets; designing and deploying advanced analytical solutions; productionizing ML systems for optimization and scalability; growing the practice through business development and team leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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