Staff ML Engineer
State Farm4 days ago
Bloomington, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, production-grade ML systems, APIs, feature pipelines, and reusable engineering components.
- Architect real-time or near-real-time decisioning and recommendation systems integrating models, business rules, eligibility, prioritization, and optimization.
- Build feedback mechanisms that capture customer interactions and business outcomes to improve recommendations.
- Develop reliable data and ML pipelines using Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and AWS.
- Implement model deployment, serving, versioning, monitoring, CI/CD, and retraining workflows.
- Architect and develop production-grade agentic AI applications with LLM orchestration, tool integration, evaluation, and guardrails.
- Lead architecture decisions, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with technical and business teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in ML engineering, software engineering, or related technical disciplines with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Expert-level Python and strong SQL skills, with experience in APIs, microservices, and production software development.
- Expert-level PySpark and Apache Spark experience building reliable data and feature pipelines.
- Deep hands-on Databricks expertise, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Workflows, plus strong AWS experience.
- Experience supporting the full production ML lifecycle, including model integration, deployment, serving, monitoring, versioning, and retraining, with familiarity with MLflow and CI/CD.
- Experience building low-latency inference services, decisioning APIs, and scalable recommendation systems.
- Hands-on experience developing LLM-powered or agentic AI applications with orchestration, tool calling, and enterprise integrations.
- Proven ability to independently architect and deliver complex, reliable enterprise systems.
- Preferred qualifications include experience developing or training ML models; building Next Best Action, recommendation, personalization, or decision optimization platforms; contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, uplift modeling, or ranking algorithms; LangGraph, LangChain, or similar frameworks; and insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring residence or relocation within 180 miles of a hub in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona, with time split between home and office.
- Potential starting base salary of $150,000-$198,000 and potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary.
- Healthcare, vision, dental, telemedicine, mental health, wellbeing, fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, and family support programs.
- Annual raises, bonuses, tuition assistance, training programs, employee resource groups, mentoring, and financial coaching.
- Paid time off, initially up to 20 days annually, parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching gifts, grants, an employee assistance fund, financial advisors, and a 401(k) with company contributions up to 7% of salary.
- Standard 38:45-hour work week.
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About State Farm
State Farm is a U.S. mutual insurance group that sells auto, home, renters, life, health, and small-business coverage, plus select financial services. It markets policies primarily through a large network of local agents and earns revenue from premiums and investing customer reserves. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, it is among the largest personal lines insurers in the United States.