Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Who we are

Hickorygate Technologies is a 43-person software shop in Arlington. The founders still answer support tickets.

About the role

Hickorygate Technologies 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 position. Most of the team is in Arlington, but nobody is required to come in. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In your first few months you will

• Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes.
• Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code.
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow.
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything.
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production.
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods.
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX.
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)

Pluses

• CUDA or Triton kernel experience.
• Guardrails, red teaming or safety evaluation for LLM features.
• Published papers or open source ML contributions.

What we offer

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Profit sharing.
• Life insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Dental insurance.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hickorygate Technologies, LLC.