Production ML Architect for SaaS

Phaedon; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Phaedon in Minneapolis seeks a Senior Data Scientist who is a builder, not just a maintainer. You will design and ship models that power our loyalty platform in production, including fraud detection, personalization, recommendations, and forecasting via API calls.

You will own the full model lifecycle, from problem framing and feature design to training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining, with production inference through scalable microservices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, CS, CS eng, or related field with 5+ years ML production experience.
• Proven production end-to-end deployment of models in a live product.
• Fluency across data/feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Experience with Git, Docker, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong self-starter with ability to scope and deliver with minimal guidance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with engineering and product stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own AI/ML models integrated into the SaaS product in production.
• Own full model lifecycle: problem framing, data/feature design, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Build production inference APIs and microservices with defined latency and reliability SLAs.
• Implement and productionize models using AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and other AWS services.
• Develop RAG systems and other LLM-powered features as product capabilities.
• Collaborate with product and analytics leadership to translate roadmap into shipped model capabilities.

Skills

Python

LangChain

Transformers

SQL

Boto3

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science, computer science, computer engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS Bedrock

SageMaker

Lambda

Redshift

Athena

Glue

Superset

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Phaedon in Minneapolis seeks a Senior Data Scientist who is a builder, not just a maintainer. You will design and ship models that power our loyalty platform in production, including fraud detection, personalization, recommendations, and forecasting via API calls.

You will own the full model lifecycle, from problem framing and feature design to training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining, with production inference through scalable microservices.