Mercury
Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer
$167K–$208K
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Any Office or Remote - Experience
- 5+ years in machine learning engineering, backend software engineering, MLOps, or a closely related field.
About the job
Builds and operates Mercury’s machine learning platform for deploying, serving, monitoring, and retraining models used in real-time risk decisioning.
What you'll do
- Build and operate low-latency, highly available model inference and deployment infrastructure.
- Develop production model observability, drift detection, and experimentation capabilities.
- Partner with Risk Data Science to transition models into production and operate them under MLP ownership.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in machine learning engineering, backend software engineering, MLOps, or a closely related field.
- Production experience deploying, serving, and operating models in low-latency, high-availability contexts.
- Strong Python backend fundamentals and experience with API frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
- Experience with model lifecycle tooling, production observability, and data systems including SQL, low-latency stores, and streaming pipelines.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, Airflow, or similar.
- Experience in regulated or audit-sensitive environments; exposure to functional languages or Haskell, React, and TypeScript.
Pay
$166,600 — $208,300 USD base salary; $157,400 — $196,800 CAD base salary
Tools
Python, FastAPI, Flask, SQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, Kinesis
AI focus
Productionize and operate ML models for real-time fraud and financial-crime risk decisioning, including inference, monitoring, drift-triggered retraining, experimentation, and explainability outputs such as SHAP attributions.
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