ML Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Headquartered in New York City since 2001, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Role overview:

Bracken Apps is hiring for the 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. Fully remote, but we prefer candidates within a few hours of Eastern time.

Your responsibilities:

• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow
• 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
• Deploy models behind low-latency APIs with FastAPI, Triton, TorchServe or vLLM
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)

Preferred:

• Distributed training with DeepSpeed or FSDP
• Computer vision background (OpenCV, detection, segmentation)

Starting pay: $188,000 to $240,000 annually, depending on experience and certifications.

Compensation and benefits:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Paid parental leave
• Life insurance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are not working with agencies on this role.

Start: Immediately.

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