ML Engineer

Larchwater employs 4,800 people across engineering hubs in Huntsville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

About the role

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. This hire will help build out our ML platform: feature store, training pipelines, model registry and deployment. ML engineering role focused on pipelines, serving and monitoring. You'll work alongside data scientists rather than replace them. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Responsibilities

• Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes.
• Track experiments, artifacts and versions in MLflow or Weights & Biases.
• Handle on-call for the ML services the team owns.
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions.
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality.
• Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code.
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything.

Minimum qualifications

• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data.
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods.
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray.

Nice to have

• Computer vision background (OpenCV, detection, segmentation)
• Recommendation or ranking systems at scale.
• Distributed training with DeepSpeed or FSDP.
• Guardrails, red teaming or safety evaluation for LLM features.

Compensation: $181,000-$220,000 annually DOE.

Benefits

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid time off.

Larchwater provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Within 30 days.

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