Junior ML Engineer: Build Real-World Models & Pipelines

MyFundedFutures; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MyFundedFutures in Plano, TX is seeking a Junior Machine Learning Engineer to build, validate, and maintain ML models and data pipelines on our cloud platform. You will work with real product data and explain model behavior and trustworthiness to decision-makers.

You will collaborate with Data Science and Analytics teams and stakeholders to translate business questions into solvable analytical problems, delivering actionable insights and robust production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, with coursework in machine learning or statistical learning. Graduate degree is a plus.
• Strong Python and PySpark skills, with the ability to write clean, tested, maintainable code.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, or similar)
• Strong SQL, including window functions and multi-table joins.
• Solid understanding of core ML concepts: cross-validation, overfitting, class imbalance, data leakage (including in time-ordered data), and choosing evaluation metrics appropriate to the problem.
• Hands-on experience with: Gradient-boosted trees (XGBoost, LightGBM)
• Logistic regression, support vector machines, k-nearest neighbors
• Clustering methods (k-means and others)
• Experience taking a model from development into a scheduled or production environment
• Docker, CI/CD, and workflow orchestration experience
• Ability to explain model behavior, including feature importance, calibration, and limitations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, validate, and maintain machine learning models under the guidance of senior team members.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and analytical datasets on the Company's cloud data platform.
• Evaluate model performance rigorously and document assumptions, methods, and limitations.
• Support statistical analysis, forecasting, and experimentation to inform business decisions.
• Present technical findings clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to standards for model documentation, validation, and monitoring.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

XGBoost

LightGBM

Docker

CI/CD

Model evaluation

Explainability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Engineering

Graduate degree a plus

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Fabric

Job description

MyFundedFutures in Plano, TX is seeking a Junior Machine Learning Engineer to build, validate, and maintain ML models and data pipelines on our cloud platform. You will work with real product data and explain model behavior and trustworthiness to decision-makers.

You will collaborate with Data Science and Analytics teams and stakeholders to translate business questions into solvable analytical problems, delivering actionable insights and robust production-ready solutions.