Senior Machine Learning Engineer

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. Hazelland is hiring for the Senior Machine Learning Engineer role to take models from notebook to production and keep them working once they're there. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Your responsibilities

• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow
• Build training pipelines in PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on GPUs in AWS, GCP or Azure
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions
• Deploy models behind low-latency APIs with FastAPI, Triton, TorchServe or vLLM
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field
• 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)
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)

Preferred

• Distributed training with DeepSpeed or FSDP

Benefits

Starting pay: $127.00 - $153.00/hr, depending on experience and certifications.

• Referral program

About Hazelland

Hazelland employs 11,100 people across engineering hubs in Washington and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Washington, District of Columbia and two nearshore delivery centers. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

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

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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