
ML Engineer, Forward Deployed
Prior Labs2 months ago
Berlin, Germany or New York, NY, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Integrate tabular foundation models into customer platforms, cloud environments, and ML pipelines.
- Frame real-world data problems, engineer features, build and benchmark models, and compare results with customer baselines.
- Own customer use cases from initial conversation through reliable, documented production delivery.
- Partner with customer data science and ML teams as a trusted technical peer.
- Customize and optimize models across performance, latency, scale, and cost tradeoffs.
- Translate deployment insights into prioritized feedback for the model and product roadmap.
- Establish deployment patterns and standards for the growing team.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building and deploying ML systems in production, with end-to-end ownership of challenging problems.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and expert-level Python skills.
- Hands-on ML expertise with PyTorch, scikit-learn, and transformer or foundation-model approaches.
- Depth in tabular, time-series, or structured-data machine learning.
- Production cloud deployment experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Ability to navigate technical and business stakeholders and drive customer outcomes.
- High autonomy, sound judgment in ambiguity, and a focus on clean, maintainable, well-documented code.
- Preferred: forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or senior technical customer-facing experience.
- Preferred: contributions to relevant open-source ML or data engineering projects.
- Preferred: experience with enterprise data ecosystems, APIs, and deployment pipelines.
Benefits
- Teams are based in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York, with exceptional remote arrangements generally involving frequent travel to an office.
- The company holds regular all-company offsites.
- The company offers equal opportunities and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.
Tech Stack
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Forward Deployed