Lead ML Systems Engineer — Production & Impact

OhioX; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Root is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer I to develop and operate scalable ML systems across Marketing, Finance, Product and Customer Experience. You’ll work with data scientists and engineers to productionize models, simulations, and forecasting workflows to drive business decisions.

The role focuses on building infrastructure, tooling and patterns enabling ML at scale, with strong emphasis on reliability and operational maturity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and deploying ML systems with data scientists.
• Strong Python and production-grade software skills.
• Experience with cloud ML infrastructure and CI/CD patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale ML systems and pipelines across the business.
• Partner with data scientists to productionize models and forecasts.
• Improve reliability, observability, and operational patterns of ML workflows.
• Mentor teams and share best practices for production ML.

Skills

5+ years ML systems

Python

Production ML

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as code

Education

BS in Statistics/Mathematics/Engineering

Tools

MLflow

Airflow

Terraform

Job description

Root is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer I to develop and operate scalable ML systems across Marketing, Finance, Product and Customer Experience. You’ll work with data scientists and engineers to productionize models, simulations, and forecasting workflows to drive business decisions.

The role focuses on building infrastructure, tooling and patterns enabling ML at scale, with strong emphasis on reliability and operational maturity.