Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Bridger Photonics; Bozeman (MT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridger Photonics is hiring an Applied Machine Learning Engineer to join a growing ML team. You will own production models end-to-end, from dataset and feature work through training, evaluation, and validation in production, and help build agentic AI systems for internal automation and customer-facing capabilities.

You’ll collaborate with ML researchers and platform engineers to deploy models, build monitoring, and drive ML priorities across geographies.

Qualifications

• Python and ML frameworks; PyTorch preferred.
• 2+ years of production ML modeling experience.
• Git and CI/CD proficiency.
• SQL with PostgreSQL experience.
• Data lakes familiarity (Parquet, S3).
• Container deployments with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud experience, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Train, iterate on models in the detection pipeline for accuracy, efficiency, and generalization across geographies.
• Build and automate training and retraining workflows with Dagster, and dataset/feature pipelines on our ML platform (MLflow, DVC).
• Design and run offline experiments and evaluations to decide which model versions ship.
• Build agentic AI systems to automate internal workflows and power customer-facing capabilities.
• Collaborate with our ML research partner and platform engineers on deployment and priorities.
• Implement monitoring and observability in ML pipelines and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

ML pipelines

Git & CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Parquet/S3

Docker & Kubernetes

AWS

Cross-stack

Tools

Dagster

MLflow

DVC

KServe

GeoPandas

PostGIS

Kafka

Job description

Bridger Photonics is a technology company making a global impact on emissions reduction. Built on the foundation of our cutting-edge aerial methane detection technology, we provide industry-leading data and analytics that empower companies to reduce emissions efficiently and strategically. As we continue to expand our solutions, we remain committed to making emissions detection simple, scalable, and impactful.

Headquartered in Montana, our technology was first introduced in the USA where we quickly became a leader in methane emissions management. These results have allowed us to rapidly scale internationally. We’re a fast-growing team of innovators—from engineers and scientists to business and operations experts—dedicated to solving complex challenges. If you’re looking to apply your talents to work that enables companies making a difference, join us in shaping the future of emissions reduction.

About the role

We are looking for an Applied Machine Learning Engineer to join our small but growing Machine Learning team. We use ML to improve the efficiency and accuracy of detecting and quantifying methane emissions, and we are actively expanding ML's role in our detection pipeline to reduce cost of goods, improve reliability, and enable the platform to scale to new geographies and customers. You’ll own production models end-to-end, from dataset and feature work through training, evaluation, and validation in production. You'll also help build the agentic AI systems we're developing for internal automation and customer-facing product capabilities.

What you'll do

• Train, iterate on, and improve the models in our detection pipeline, focusing on accuracy, efficiency, and generalization across geographies
• Build and automate training and retraining workflows with Dagster, and dataset and feature pipelines on top of our ML platform (ML flow, DVC)
• Design and run the offline experiments and evaluations that decide which model versions ship
• Build agentic AI systems that automate internal workflows and power customer-facing product capabilities
• Collaborate closely with our ML research partner on model development and our platform engineers on deployment, surfacing insights that shape ML platform and model priorities
• Build monitoring and observability into ML pipelines from the start, and share on-call responsibility for production ML systems

Qualifications

• Python proficiency and experience with at least one ML/DL framework (PyTorch preferred)
• 2+ years experience training models and building or operating ML pipelines in production
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (branching, code review, CI/CD)
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Familiarity with data lake architectures and columnar storage formats (Parquet, S3)
• Familiarity with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud computing providers, preferably AWS
• Comfortable working across multiple layers of the tech stack

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with computer vision models and image datasets (familiarity with point cloud or LiDAR data is a plus)
• Experience with any of: KServe, MLflow, Dagster, DVC, or similar ML tooling
• Experience building LLM-based applications or agentic systems (tool use, evaluation, prompt engineering)
• Experience with geospatial data tools or extensions (PostGIS, GeoPandas, GDAL)
• Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka, CDC patterns)