Machine Learning Engineering Senior Engineer #1056751
Position Description:

• ML Ops
• Build scalable and robust ML data pipelines in the cloud to process large volumes of connected vehicle data to support our agentic initiatives.
• Optimize existing ML solutions for performance, security, and cost-effectiveness
• Utilize continual learning methods to continuously improve model performance Other
• Develop exceptional analytical data products using both streaming and batch ingestion patterns on Google Cloud Platform with solid data warehouse principles.
• Build data pipelines to monitoring quality of data and performance of analytical models and agentic solutions.
• Maintain the infrastructure of the data platform using terraform and continuously develop, evaluate, and deliver code using CI/CD.
• Collaborate with data analytics stakeholders to streamline the data acquisition, processing, and presentation process.
• Implement an enterprise data governance model and actively promote the concept of data - protection, sharing, reuse, quality, and standards.
• Enhance and maintain the DevOps capabilities of the data platform.
• Continuously optimize and enhance existing data solutions (pipelines, products, infrastructure) for best performance, high security, low vulnerability, low costs, and high reliability.
• Work in an agile product team to deliver code frequently using Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Promptly address code quality issues using SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and Cycode throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform any necessary data mapping, data lineage activities and document information flows.
• Monitor the production pipelines and provide production support by addressing production issues as per SLAs.
• Provide analysis of connected vehicle data to support new product developments and production vehicle improvements.
• Provide visibility to data quality/vehicle/feature issues and work with the business owners to fix the issues.
• Demonstrate technical knowledge and communication skills with the ability to advocate for well-designed solutions.
• Continuously enhance your domain knowledge of connected vehicle data, connected services and algorithms/models/solutions developed by data scientists and AI engineers.
• Stay current on the latest data engineering practices and contribute to the technical direction of the company while keeping a customer-centric approach.

 
Skills Required:
Technical Communication, Communications, Google Cloud Platform, TensorFlow, Data Governance, Machine Learning, Python, Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, GitHub, Tekton, Docker, Jira, Microservices, Data Architecture, Agile Software Development, SQL, Java, Spark, Cloud Architecture, Apache Kafka, REST APIs

• Technical Communication - This person will need to describe clearly the ML/AI Ops needs and strategy to colleagues potentially up to executives across a wide cross section of people from very knowledge to not technically knowledgeable in this area.
• Communications - In addition to the technical communication needed, this person will need to be a great communicator to work with people in other organizations who are stakeholders and we need to work together and not have there be communication gaps
• Google Cloud Platform - Deep knowledge of how to implement ML / AI Ops in the GCP Platform specifically is required
• TensorFlow
• Data Governance - This role will need to implement an enterprise data governance model and actively promote the concept of data - protection, sharing, reuse, quality, and standards.
• Machine Learning - We need an ML Ops expert
• Python - Some of the ML Ops pipeline will likely need to be setup using this code
• Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems - The ML Ops pipeline needs to be set up for AI Agentic Solutions in mind as well.
• GitHub - This is where our code will reside, so this is needed SEE 10 TO 21 IN ADDITION INFORMATION

 
Skills Preferred:
Telematics, Machine Learning, Data Modeling, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Mining, Database Design, Troubleshooting (Problem Solving), Labor Supervision

• Telematics - Knowledge of this is nice, as some of our data will be Telematics data
• Machine Learning
• Data Modeling - In order to understand how the data will interact with the ML Operations.
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Data Mining
• Database Design
• Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
• Labor Supervision - Will need to mentor and advise junior team members to spread ML Ops expertise across the organization

 
Experience Required:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field, and 4 years of experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience (6+ years with Bachelor's Degree).
• 4 years of professional experience in:
  • Data engineering, data product development and software product launches
  • At least three of the following languages: Java, Python, Spark, Scala, SQL
• 3 years of cloud data/software engineering experience building scalable, reliable, and cost-effective production batch and streaming data pipelines using:
  • Data warehouses like Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery. o Workflow orchestration tools like Airflow.
  • Relational Database Management System like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
  • Real-Time data streaming platform like Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub
  • Microservices architecture to deliver large-scale real-time data processing application.
  • REST APIs for compute, storage, operations, and security.
  • DevOps tools such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub, Terraform, Docker.
  • Project management tools like Atlassian JIRA. Even better if you have...

 
Experience Preferred:

• D. or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information System, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 2 years of experience with ML Model Development and/or MLOps.
• Committed code to improve open-source data/software engineering projects
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructure and handling application migrations/upgrades.
• GCP Professional Certifications.
• Demonstrated passion to mine raw data and realize its hidden value.
• Passion to experiment/implement state of the art data engineering methods/techniques.
• Experience working in an implementation team from concept to operations, providing deep technical subject matter expertise for successful deployment.
• Experience implementing methods for automation of all parts of the pipeline to minimize labor in development and production.
• Analytics skills to profile data, troubleshoot data pipeline/product issues.
• Ability to simplify, clearly communicate complex data/software ideas/problems and work with cross-functional teams and all levels of management independently.
• Ability to mentor and advise junior team members

 
Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

 
Education Preferred:

• Master's Degree

 
Additional Info:
 
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Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
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