Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Federato; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 300,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance technology firm in New Zealand is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to design scalable ML pipelines and lead cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, focusing on LLM models. This role offers a competitive annual salary between $180,000 - $220,000, plus stock options and benefits in a dynamic work culture.

Benefits

Stock options

Health benefits

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer.
• Strong focus on pipelining LLM models over the last 2 years.
• Experience in building scalable ML pipelines and monitoring workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable machine learning pipelines.
• Collaborate as a technical lead for junior team members.
• Ensure production-grade deployment standards for ML systems.

Skills

Machine Learning

Cloud Platforms

Pipelining LLM Models

Communication Skills

CI/CD Pipelines

Education

Relevant Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubeflow

Cloud Services APIs

Job description

Overview

Federato is on a mission to defend the right to efficient, equitable insurance for all. We enable insurers to provide affordable coverage to people and organizations facing today’s issues—climate, cyber-attacks, social inflation, etc.—and are backed by investors including those behind Salesforce, Veeva, Zoom, Box, and others. Federato’s AI/ML-driven platform uses deep reinforcement learning to help insurance companies optimize risk portfolios and provide fair, equitable pricing in difficult-to-price areas. Our category-defining RiskOps solution surfaces real-time risk and portfolio insights and helps underwriters stay in the driver’s seat, meeting goals while serving society.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and implement scalable machine learning pipelines, serving prompt engineering workflows to enhance scalability and efficiency in submission intake processes across multiple insurance use cases.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, serving as a technical lead for junior team members, providing mentorship and guidance to elevate team performance and technical knowledge.
• Ensure production-grade deployment standards, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and compliance with insurance data handling policies, balancing rapid iteration with stability.
• Build reusable, modular infrastructure components and CI/CD pipelines for ML and LLM workloads, enabling rapid experimentation and seamless transition from research to production.
• Champion best practices in observability, testing, and monitoring of ML systems, establishing standards for model/data drift detection, logging, and automated rollback strategies.

Who We Hope You Are

• Proven experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or similar role (at least 5 years), with a strong focus on pipelining LLM models over the last 2 years.
• Proven experience in designing scalable and robust machine learning pipelines, both for classical machine learning and large language models (LLMs) along with familiarity with open-source models is a plus.
• Experience in building scalable ML pipelines using tools such as Kubeflow. Knowledge of automating and monitoring ML workflows to ensure consistent model performance in production.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, including deploying models, managing cloud resources, and using relevant APIs for data intake, storage, and processing.
• Great communication skills with the ability to convey complex findings to non-technical audiences.

$180,000 - $220,000 a year. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Total compensation package does include stock options, benefits and additional perks.

Here at Federato, your capabilities are important, but culture fit is quintessential. We move fast, listen to our users, take a first principles approach to solving problems, and value learning and the ability to change our minds. Most importantly, we’re here to have fun. Our ability to make a difference starts with our people. We would love to work with you!

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