Drimva

Upstart

Staff/Principal Machine Learning Engineer

$221K–$300K

United States +2 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Nov 19, 2025

Location
United States
Remote
Remote
Experience
5-7+ years of hands-on applied machine learning experience; master's degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent additional professional experience.
Education
Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent additional professional experience.

About the job

Leads development of scalable machine learning platform infrastructure and workflows that help teams build, deploy, and monitor models more quickly and improve predictive accuracy.

What you'll do

  • Build reusable ML platform capabilities, including embedding, feature engineering, continuous-learning, and scalable training systems.
  • Improve and automate the end-to-end model lifecycle, from data preparation and training through evaluation, serving, and monitoring.
  • Define the ML Platform roadmap and guide technical direction in collaboration with research, data, engineering, and product teams.

What they ask for

  • Strong theoretical and practical foundation in machine learning and statistics, including model assumptions, bias, uncertainty, evaluation, and failure modes.
  • 5-7+ years of hands-on applied machine learning experience, with exposure to production-scale modeling.
  • Experience in high-scale ML-driven product environments, especially fintech, pricing, or risk modeling.
  • Proficiency in Python and core ML frameworks; demonstrated end-to-end model development expertise.

Nice to have

  • Practical experience optimizing ML workflows with CUDA/GPU acceleration.
  • Background in feature store design, embedding architecture, or synthetic data generation.

Pay

$220,700 — $300,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, CUDA

AI focus

Build and scale ML infrastructure and automated workflows for model development, training, deployment, evaluation, and monitoring, with the goal of improving predictive accuracy.

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