Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

About the Role

At Remitly, our Central Machine Learning Team plays a pivotal role in empowering various business verticals through cutting-edge machine learning solutions. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be at the forefront of this endeavor, collaborating closely with diverse teams such as Customer Success and Treasury. Your expertise will drive the development and implementation of advanced ML models, addressing complex challenges and significantly contributing to our business goals.

You Will

1. Build models that enhance customer experience and improve self-service.
2. Build machine learning models that detect malicious activity and actors in our system.
3. Work with the ML infrastructure team to ensure models can meet latency and uptime requirements.
4. Build end-to-end ML pipelines to train and deploy models from development to production.
5. Mentor other MLEs and Data Scientists to elevate the overall expertise of the team.
6. Collaborate with leadership to set our ML Program and strategy vision.

You Have

1. Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
2. 5+ years of experience building production Machine Learning systems (experience with classification problems, time series).
3. At least 1+ years of experience in LLM.
4. Hands-on experience with Python and ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, scipy, numpy, matplotlib, pandas), SQL, and Spark.
5. Experience working with teams like Customer Success and Treasury to understand their unique challenges and objectives. Forge strong partnerships with Product Managers and Analysts to identify critical trends and patterns that can be leveraged for machine learning solutions.
6. Experience making tough technical trade-offs, understanding the impacts of these trade-offs, and finding a balance between short-term outcomes and long-term effects.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.