Associate ML Engineer

Company overview

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Tucson since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Founded in 2002, we now have 930 employees.

Yeager Data is hiring for the Associate ML Engineer role to take models from notebook to production and keep them working once they're there. We're looking for an engineer to build retrieval-augmented generation features on hosted and open-weight language models, with proper evaluation. Remote position. Most of the team is in Tucson, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do

• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality
• Maintain feature pipelines and a feature store such as Feast or Tecton
• Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions
• Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting

Minimum qualifications

• 1+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray
• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data

Pay and benefits

Compensation: $120,000 - $146,000 per year DOE.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Three weeks of PTO to start

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Yeager Data.