Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Jobright.ai
United StatesFull-timePosted Sep 17, 2026

About the role

Jobright is a personal AI job search agent that simplifies the job search process and helps users reach better job outcomes. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer owns the design, development, deployment, evaluation, monitoring, and reliability of machine learning systems while leading complex initiatives and mentoring colleagues.

Why Join Us

  • Build real, production AI agents used by real users
  • High ownership and impact
  • Work at the intersection of AI, agents, and product
  • Shape how people experience AI-driven job search

Responsibilities

  • Build training, evaluation, and inference workflows for machine learning models
  • Create reliable feature and dataset pipelines with data engineers
  • Deploy model services and monitor model quality, latency, and reliability
  • Write automated tests and investigate training or inference failures
  • Partner with data scientists and product engineers to turn evaluated models into maintainable features
  • Lead technical design and delivery for complex initiatives in this role, making tradeoffs explicit
  • Mentor colleagues and improve review, documentation, and operational practices

Qualification

Required

  • Practical experience building and deploying machine learning systems
  • Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals
  • Experience with a machine learning framework and reproducible model evaluation
  • Understanding of data leakage, feature consistency, model serving, and monitoring
  • Ability to troubleshoot production systems and collaborate with a remote team
  • Demonstrated experience owning complex projects from design through production or business adoption
  • Ability to lead technical decisions, review others' work, and mentor colleagues

Preferred

  • Experience with PyTorch, containerized model services, or workflow orchestration
  • Familiarity with recommendation systems, retrieval, distributed training, or inference optimization

Responsibilities

  • Build training, evaluation, and inference workflows for machine learning models
  • Create reliable feature and dataset pipelines with data engineers
  • Deploy model services and monitor model quality, latency, and reliability
  • Write automated tests and investigate training or inference failures
  • Partner with data scientists and product engineers to turn evaluated models into maintainable features
  • Lead technical design and delivery for complex initiatives in this role, making tradeoffs explicit
  • Mentor colleagues and improve review, documentation, and operational practices

Qualifications

  • Practical experience building and deploying machine learning systems
  • Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals
  • Experience with a machine learning framework and reproducible model evaluation
  • Understanding of data leakage, feature consistency, model serving, and monitoring
  • Ability to troubleshoot production systems and collaborate with a remote team
  • Demonstrated experience owning complex projects from design through production or business adoption
  • Ability to lead technical decisions, review others' work, and mentor colleagues

Skills mentioned

PythonMachine LearningPyTorchModel EvaluationModel DeploymentModel MonitoringData PipelinesDockerSoftware TestingDebugging

About Jobright.ai

Every hire is two searches - a person looking for the right role, and a company looking for the right person. For two years, Jobright worked only the first one. 2 million professionals now use our AI agent to find roles, sharpen how they show up, and get in front of the people hiring. Earlier this year, we started working the second. Employers can now put Jobright on a role. Our AI recruiter sources from the professionals who already trust us, verifies every candidate is real, and reaches out under a name candidates recognize, which is why they reply. What reaches the hiring team is a list of people worth interviewing, within 24 hours. All they do is interview. Two searches. One platform. Agents on both sides that keep working until both sides say yes.

Software Development11-50 employeesSanta Clara, California