Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Tilt Finance5 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Run and improve the managed feature store, including feature definition, backfilling, serving, and use in model training and deployment.
- Build and improve automated ML training, retraining, deployment, and model-serving platforms used across multiple data science teams.
- Create self-service agents and tooling for feature registration, training jobs, model promotion, and monitoring.
- Scale batch scoring and low-latency online inference with autoscaling, resource isolation, and cost controls.
- Extend monitoring for data drift, feature drift, prediction quality, and serving health with usable alerts and dashboards.
- Define and lead adoption of standards for model and feature versioning, lineage, testing, and documentation.
- Gather stakeholder requirements, identify platform pain points, propose solutions, and drive projects through adoption.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience as an ML platform or software engineer with a record of platforms serving many production models across multiple teams.
- Experience with feature stores and model deployment platforms such as Databricks Feature Store, Feast, Tecton, or equivalent.
- Strong experience with CI/CD for ML, model registries, and infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Cloud expertise in AWS or Azure for ML deployment, plus Kubernetes and workflow orchestration.
- Strong understanding of batch and real-time serving, autoscaling, latency trade-offs, and cost trade-offs.
- Experience building self-service deployment tooling adopted by data scientists and collaborating with backend engineers to launch deployments.
- Sufficient depth in model development and common algorithms to partner technically with data scientists.
- Ability to work independently through ambiguity, gather requirements, propose solutions, and complete projects.
- Familiarity with PySpark, Databricks, and monitoring tools such as Evidently AI is a plus.
Benefits
- Remote-first and virtual-first work with work-from-home office reimbursement.
- Twice-yearly paid global company offsites.
- Flexible health plans with substantial subsidies.
- Direct exposure to leadership and growth opportunities based on contributions.
- Collaboration across 14 countries and 12 time zones.
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About Tilt Finance
Tilt Finance builds leave management software for employers, combining automated workflows, compliance guidance, and third‑party administration to support HR teams and employees through paid and unpaid leaves. The company sells a B2B platform and services that streamline eligibility, documentation, and communication across managers, HR, and employees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, Tilt is privately held and positions its product for organizations seeking to improve engagement, retention, and policy compliance around leave.