The Role

We’re looking for a seasoned Staff MLE to shape and scale the backbone of our production ML ecosystem. In this role, you will architect high-performing ML systems that power our geospatial intelligence platform, transforming large-scale satellite and aerial imagery into actionable insights. You’ll lead end-to-end ownership—from model deployment and MLOps to infrastructure design—while partnering closely with data science, platform engineering, and product teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient ML solutions. If you thrive at the intersection of deep technical expertise, system design, and cross-functional collaboration, this role is for you.

How you'll make an impact:

ML System Architecture & Production Deployment

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines for batch processing of satellite and aerial imagery

• Deploy and scale ML models in production on AWS infrastructure, leveraging services like SageMaker, Bedrock,or custom-built solutions

• Implement MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, and model registry management

• Architect batch inference systems optimized for throughput and cost-efficiency

• Work with geospatial data formats and coordinate reference systems

• Collaborate with data scientists to transition models from research to production

• Partner with platform engineering to build scalable compute, GPU clusters, and storage layers

  ML Operations & Reliability

• Implement comprehensive model monitoring systems to track performance degradation and data drift

• Design and execute canary deployments and A/B testing frameworks for safe model rollouts

• Build active learning pipelines to continuously improve model performance with minimal labeling effort

• Establish model evaluation frameworks and performance benchmarking processes

• Create alerting and observability systems for production ML workloads

Technical Leadership

• Mentor ML engineers and data scientists on best practices for production ML

• Drive technical decision-making on ML infrastructure and tooling

• Collaborate with platform and data engineering teams to optimize the ML stack

• Establish engineering standards and contribute to architectural roadmaps

  What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering with 2+ years in a senior or lead capacity

• Proven track record deploying and maintaining ML systems in production using AWS services (SageMaker,Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, etc.)

• Strong hands-on experience with tools like MLflow, WandB, or similar for experiment tracking and model management

• Deep expertise in image segmentation and computer vision techniques using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow

• Production experience with ensemble models (xgboost, lightgbm, RF)

ML Operations Expertise

• Experience implementing model monitoring, drift detection, and alerting systems

• Hands-on experience with canary deployments, A/B testing and Shadow deployments for ML models

• Knowledge of active learning strategies and human-in-the-loop ML systems

• Strong understanding of model evaluation metrics, bias detection, and performance analysis

Technical Skills

• Expert-level Python programming with ML libraries (scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow, NumPy, pandas, etc)

• Experience with distributed batch processing frameworks (Airflow, Step Functions, Argo Workflows, Spark,Dask, Ray or similar)

• Proficiency with AWS ML ecosystem and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Hands-on experience with dataset versioning tools such as DVC, LakeFS, Delta Lake, Quilt, or Pachyderm

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: unit/integration testing, CI/CD, version control, observability, designpatterns

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) for model deployment

• Good to have experience with ML Orchestration tools like Kubeflow, Vertex AI, etc

• Nice to have experience with GPUs: scheduling GPU jobs, optimizing GPU performance, memory profiling

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices, and we promote a work environment where everyone, from any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, can do their best work.