Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Causal & Decision Systems

CSC Generation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CSC Generation is building closed-loop decision systems that use machine learning to operate consumer businesses more intelligently. You will help build systems that estimate causal response and quantify uncertainty, then choose actions and observe outcomes to update policies and deploy within guardrails.

The role involves exploring causal/heterogeneous treatment‑effect modeling, uncertainty estimation, contextual bandits, policy learning, and production ML infrastructure to drive measurable

Qualifications

• Strong background in ML and statistics.
• Experience with causal inference and experimentation.
• Knowledge of decision systems and bandits is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that estimate causal response and quantify uncertainty.
• Develop policies to optimize pricing, inventory, and related decisions.
• Work on production ML infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment.

Skills

Machine learning

Causal inference

Experimentation

Python

SQL

Production ML systems

Job description

CSC Generation is building closed-loop decision systems that use machine learning to operate consumer businesses more intelligently.

We are starting with pricing and expanding into areas such as inventory, purchasing, promotions, marketing, and assortment.

The Role

You will help build systems that:

• estimate causal response + quantify uncertainty → choose actions → generate useful information → observe outcomes → update policies → evaluate challengers → deploy within guardrails

We want to answer questions such as:

• What happens because we change a price, rather than simply what happens next?


• How should uncertainty affect a decision?


• When should the system exploit what it knows versus experiment to learn?


• Can we estimate the value of a challenger policy before fully deploying it?


• How do we optimize economic outcomes while respecting inventory, margin, vendor, customer, and operational constraints?

What You’ll Work On

Depending on your background, you may work across:

• causal and heterogeneous treatment‑effect modeling;


• uncertainty estimation and calibration;


• contextual bandits, active learning, or sequential decision‑making;


• policy learning and constrained optimization;


• counterfactual and off‑policy evaluation;


• experimentation and champion/challenger systems;


• production ML infrastructure, monitoring, and automated deployment.

We care about selecting the right method, not using a particular framework.

What Success Looks Like

Success is not a better offline metric.

The systems you build should produce measurable economic lift in controlled experiments, generalize across businesses, learn from their own interventions, and safely automate an increasing share of real commercial decisions.

Over time, the goal is simple:

the system should become better at operating the business because it has operated the business.

What We’re Looking For

We care more about exceptional technical ability and judgment than matching a checklist.

Strong candidates will have experience in several of:

• machine learning and statistical modeling;


• causal inference and experimentation;


• recommendation, advertising, pricing, marketplace, credit, or other decision systems;


• bandits, reinforcement learning, optimization, or active learning;


• uncertainty estimation;


• counterfactual evaluation;


• production ML systems;


• Python, SQL, and large behavioral datasets.

Why This Role Is Different

Most ML systems learn from a dataset.

Here, the decisions made by the model influence the data the model sees next.

That creates a continuous loop:

Decision → intervention → outcome → learning → better decision

The long-term opportunity is to build that capability once and apply it across a portfolio of businesses and increasingly broad commercial decisions.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.