Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Remote)

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in home improvement seeks a Sr Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to their software and algorithm design efforts. This role involves close collaboration with teams to develop efficient machine learning solutions, ensure product quality, and engage in performance tuning and customer interactions. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in machine learning tools and programming, as well as a passion for building impactful software.

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with algorithms like clustering, forecasting, and neural networks.
• Experience in a CI/CD toolchain.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with product team members to create machine learning solutions.
• Documents and reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Provides application support for software running in production.

Skills

Machine Learning

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Software Design

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Jupyter Notebooks

Pandas

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

Git

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Position Purpose:

The Sr Machine Learning Engineer is responsible for joining a product team and contributing to the software design, algorithm design, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our users love. The engineering process is highly collaborative. Sr ML Engineers are expected to lead work efforts and pair daily as they work through user stories and support products as they evolve.ML Engineers may be involved in designing and implementing AI/ML algorithms to embed directly into software products. Activities may include using specific HD process techniques, integration, design, and development.

The role could interface with Business Stakeholders, Technology Infrastructure teams, and Development teams to ensure that business requirements are properly met within a machine learning solution. The role may also be involved in performance tuning, testing, and product monitoring. Other responsibilities may include performing customer outreach, designing ML educational material, and data engineering.Sr ML Engineers should be able to operate independently though will typically work as part of a team with varying skill levels to create, support, and deploy production applications. This role will review submitted code and provide feedback to improve, based on best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• 70% Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable machine learning solutions; Documents, reviews, and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs; Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• 10% Learning - Participates in learning activities around modern software design, machine learning, and development core practices (communities of practice); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• 20% Support and Enablement - Fields questions from other product teams or support teams; Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams; Provides application support for software running in production; Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products; Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, message processing, and prediction quality

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This Position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Software Engineer Manager
• This Position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 - 4 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with algorithms such as clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, and neural networks.
• Experience to basic statistics and regression algorithms
• Experience with Data Analysis and Machine Learning Tools and Libraries like Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas, SciPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform and AI/ML related components such as Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, and Experience in effective data engineering practices and big data platforms such as BigQuery, Data Store, etc- Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Experience with GPU acceleration (i.e. CUDA and cuDNN)
• Experience in modern web application framework such as Node.js
• Experience in a front-end technology and framework such as HTML, CCS, JavaScript, ReactJS, D3
• Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Experience in version control systems (preferable Git)
• Experience in a Linux or Unix based environment
• Experience in a CI/CD toolchain
• Experience in REST and effective web service design
• Familiarity with production systems design including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Experience with cloud computing platform and associated automation patterns and machine learning services they provide
• Familiarity with defensive coding practices and patterns for high Availability
• Familiarity with A/B testing and effective REST design for scalable web services architecture
• Familiarity with advanced machine learning techniques such as NLP, convolutional neural networks, autoencoders, and embeddings generation and utilization
• Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications using methods like prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning.
• Proficient in using foundation models (e.g., Gemini, GPT, Claude) for tasks such as summarization, question answering, classification, and data transformation.
• Experience with embedding models and vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Chroma, Vertex AI Vector Search).
• Ability to integrate multi-agent systems using frameworks like Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) for workflow orchestration.
• Experience with Data Analytics (self service reporting systems, cloud data warehousing)

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 2

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy