Forecasting ML Engineer for Enterprise AI

Sonny's Enterprises Inc. - Conveyorized Car Wash Equipment Leader; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

401(k) match

Dental & Vision

Flex spending account

Long-term disability

Job summary

Sonny's Enterprises is seeking a Senior ML/Forecasting Engineer to build and operationalize forecasting pipelines and AI models in production. You will collaborate with data engineering and BI teams to align outputs with governed semantic structures and reporting standards.

The role emphasizes feature engineering, model deployment, monitoring, and delivering measurable operational impacts across revenue, demand, and inventory planning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, applied AI engineering, or production forecasting.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, SQL, Python, and production-grade data pipeline development.
• Experience building forecasting or machine learning solutions in production, including feature preparation, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Experience with model lifecycle practices, versioning, validation, performance tracking, and production release processes.
• Ability to connect technical AI and forecasting work to measurable financial, operational, or customer-facing outcomes.
• Strong understanding of data quality, metric consistency, semantic validation, and governed enterprise reporting needs.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain feature pipelines, training datasets, and forecast workflows for revenue, demand, delivery timing, customer behavior, inventory risk, process performance, and operational planning use cases.
• Operationalize forecasting and machine learning models through repeatable training, evaluation, deployment, inference, and monitoring patterns in Databricks.
• Deploy and support batch, near-real-time, and API-based inference outputs for dashboards, Databricks Apps, workflow automation, business alerts, and decision-support tools.
• Implement model performance tracking, drift monitoring, validation checks, error handling, and traceability from source data through feature logic to prediction output.
• Partner with Data Engineering and BI teams to ensure forecast outputs, KPIs, business logic, and AI-enabled metrics align to governed semantic structures and reporting standards.
• Create reusable notebooks, libraries, feature engineering patterns, evaluation templates, and deployment frameworks that accelerate enterprise AI adoption while remaining supportable.
• Support AI/BI and agent-based consumption by preparing structured, governed, business-readable outputs that can be used by reporting tools, applications, and AI assistants.
• Translate forecasting and AI outputs into measurable operational or financial impact, including revenue opportunity, margin improvement, demand planning, service performance, inventory optimization, and process automation.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

SQL

Python

Production-grade pipelines

Model lifecycle

Tools

MLflow

Mosaic AI Model Serving

Unity Catalog

Databricks Workflows

Feature Engineering

Job description

Sonny's Enterprises is seeking a Senior ML/Forecasting Engineer to build and operationalize forecasting pipelines and AI models in production. You will collaborate with data engineering and BI teams to align outputs with governed semantic structures and reporting standards.

The role emphasizes feature engineering, model deployment, monitoring, and delivering measurable operational impacts across revenue, demand, and inventory planning.