Machine Learning Engineer

BKD; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Equity

Job summary

BKD in Columbia, SC is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to scale our infrastructure for millions of users. The role offers a $50,000-$76,000 salary, with flexible remote options and mentorship—ideal for fast growth and impact in a hands-on environment.

You will migrate services to cloud-native tech, partner across teams remotely, and ensure backward compatibility while building robust tests and extracting insights from production systems.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of real-world ML experience.
• 1 year of LightGBM práctica, plus a hunger for what's next.
• Reliable, accountable, and able to follow through.
• Practical regression analysis skills sharpened in a remote setting.

Responsibilities

• Migrate on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects.
• Engage with Columbia users to learn clustering needs.
• Maintain backward-compatible clustering schemas.
• Write regression-analysis integration tests to catch regressions before shipping.
• Surface production data insights with data teams.
• Tune MLOps queries to reduce timeouts on the SC database.
• Decide when to buy XGBoost or build it for BKD's Columbia stack.

Skills

Judgment

LightGBM práctica

Reliable

Regression Analysis

Communication discipline

Tools

XGBoost

Job description

The Machine Learning Engineer we hire will help scale our infrastructure from thousands to millions of concurrent users. We pair a $50,000 - $76,000 salary with real responsibility, so the Machine Learning Engineer you become here grows faster than the title suggests.

Key Responsibilities

• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects
• Sit with technology users in Columbia to learn what the Clustering tool really needs
• Keep Clustering schemas backward-compatible so BKD never forces a breaking upgrade
• Write the Regression Analysis integration tests that catch regressions before Columbia, SC ships them
• Work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems
• Tune MLOps queries until the SC database stops timing out under load
• Decide when to buy XGBoost versus build it for BKD's Columbia, SC stack

What You'll Bring

• Judgment seasoned by at least 1 years of real consequences
• 1 years of LightGBM práctica, plus a hunger for what's next
• Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
• Practical Regression Analysis skills sharpened in a remote setting
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later

At BKD, our mission is to make technology simpler, faster, and more accessible for everyone in Columbia, SC and beyond. At BKD the org chart is flat enough that good ideas don't need a passport to travel.

• Secure $50,000 - $76,000, flexible remote options, equity, and a mentorship program designed to help you reach the next junior.

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