Braze
Staff Applied Scientist
$184K–$332K
New York City · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years building ML systems in production.
About the job
Lead development of production ML systems and personalized marketing solutions, from model prototyping through deployment, while setting the technical direction for the team’s ML platform.
What you'll do
- Lead complex ML initiatives from design through production, including model training and serving, lifecycle management, and customer-specific model pipelines.
- Set technical vision and quality standards for the product portfolio and ML platform; review designs and code, and mentor senior engineers and data scientists.
- Coordinate cross-team initiatives and connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building production ML systems, with hands-on experience across data science, ML engineering, and ML operations.
- Experience designing and training models and building and operating production pipelines and services.
- Deep experience deploying predictive models, including supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, or recommenders, using frameworks such as PyTorch and Tensorflow.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience designing for scale, reliability, and cost.
Nice to have
- Production experience with recommender systems, multi-armed bandits, or uplift modeling; or ML platform tooling such as MLflow, Ray, feature stores, or ML observability.
- Experience with Python, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, or Kubernetes; or in customer engagement, personalization, or marketing technology.
Pay
USD 184,000 to USD 299,812/year (base salary); USD 204,000 to USD 332,400/year (On Target Earnings, including bonus or commission)
Tools
PyTorch, Tensorflow, MLflow, Ray, Python, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis
AI focus
Build and operate predictive and generative AI-enhanced marketing solutions, including customer-specific models, training pipelines, and high-throughput prediction APIs.
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