Checkr

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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20 hours ago

Base Salary

$207k - $244k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, monitor, test, and maintain production ML models and AI services.
  • Use LLM APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling, and evaluation to build production systems.
  • Write clean, tested, well-structured software and maintain APIs and production services used by other engineers.
  • Build evaluation frameworks, run experiments, and make data-driven decisions about model and system performance.
  • Partner with Product Engineering, Product, and cross-functional teams to translate business problems into ML solutions and define API contracts.
  • Automate pipelines, build agentic workflows, and contribute reusable skills and context to Checkr’s agentic platform.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent depth from experience.
  • 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years building ML systems running in production.
  • Strong Python fluency and ability to write clean, testable, well-structured code with solid object-oriented programming skills.
  • Hands-on experience using LLM APIs in production, including prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling, cost management, and evaluation.
  • Experience building and maintaining APIs, working with CI/CD pipelines, and shipping code relied on by other engineers.
  • Experience with AI-assisted workflows, LLMs, code-generation tools, or agentic systems in production or operational contexts.
  • Preferred experience with MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex, document processing, OCR, information extraction, PySpark, Ruby, compliance-sensitive domains, dbt, Snowflake, or modern ELT/data transformation tools.

Benefits

  • Learning and development allowance.
  • Competitive cash and equity compensation and advancement opportunities.
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
  • Flexible paid time off and a monthly wellness stipend.
  • Expected to work from a Checkr hub office at least 3 days per week; in-office perks include lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, snacks and beverages, and potentially a relocation stipend.
  • Hub locations include Denver, San Francisco, Nashville, and Santiago.

Tech Stack

dbtMLflowPythonRubyRuby on RailsSnowflake

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About Checkr

1,001-5,000 employees

Checkr builds an AI-powered background, identity, and credential verification platform for employers, marketplaces, landlords, and lenders, delivered via APIs and web tools. The privately held company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, supports employment, tenant, and mortgage screenings for more than 140,000 customers, including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Pennymac. Its business model centers on per-check and subscription-based screening services with built-in compliance workflows.

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