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Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer
RADAR is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale its ML capabilities, focusing on designing and maintaining production pipelines for feature engineering, training, prediction, and model serving. This role involves improving model accuracy, optimizing ML development, ensuring reliability through monitoring, and championing CI/CD best practices.
About the role
About the Job
We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help build and develop our ML capabilities at RADAR. The role requires extensive collaboration with teams and functions across the company ranging from product and customer success to engineering, data science and research.
This is a hybrid role based in our Sunnyvale, CA location with a flexible hybrid work schedule of 2-3 days in the office.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale ML infrastructure: Design and maintain scalable, reliable and efficient production pipelines for feature engineering, training, prediction and model serving using tools including Airflow, Big Query and Kubeflow.
- Drive model performance: Train, validate and deploy high-quality ML models, applying advanced techniques in feature selection, hyperparameter tuning and model architecture choices to improve the accuracy of our products.
- Accelerate ML development: Optimize feature engineering pipelines for performance and scalability while collaborating with Data Science to research, develop, and deploy new features that improve model accuracy.
- Ensure reliability: Implement comprehensive model monitoring, automated training pipelines, and observability solutions to maintain model health and performance.
- Champion best practices: Apply CI/CD principles including automated testing, model validation, and deployment strategies.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years building production ML systems at scale, including feature engineering, training, deployment, and monitoring.
- Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, XGBoost).
- Hands-on experience with cloud ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML).
- Expertise in big data processing including SQL optimization and distributed computing (Spark/Dask).
- Production experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
- Proficiency with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with real-time streaming data (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field.
- Experience with MLOps tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases, etc.).