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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Attentive· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$244k - $320kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior role overseeing production-grade ML systems for real-time personalization at Attentive, collaborating across product and engineering to scale ML-powered features in a fast-paced late-stage startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable machine learning systems used in real-time targeting, decisioning, personalization systems
  • Own ML projects end-to-end, from data exploration and modeling to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Proactively safeguard model and system quality through testing, monitoring, validation, and alerting
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and other engineering partners to translate business problems into ML solutions
  • Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and engineering efficiency
  • Contribute to technical direction and best practices across the ML engineering team
  • Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
  • Thrive in a high-impact, fast-paced, late-stage startup environment

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional experience building production machine-learning software systems
  • Proven experience owning ML systems long enough to see the downstream impact of design decisions
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or xgboost
  • Experience with data processing and analytics tools such as pandas, Spark, SQL, and matplotlib
  • Hands-on experience building automated pipelines for data processing, model training, validation, and deployment
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver ML-powered features
  • Strong communication skills and a high sense of ownership

Skills

Required:PythonML frameworksData processing toolsEnd-to-end ML pipelineCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • perks and benefits including health & wellness and equity (detailed in company benefits)
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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