Senior ML Engineer — AI for Investor Insights

Latitude; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite fitness center

Gourmet cafeteria

Dry cleaning

Free shuttle to Manhattan/JC areas

Job summary

StockStory VERSANT, now part of CNBC under VERSANT, is building the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors with a startup‑like environment and the backing of a public company.

The Senior ML Engineer will design, build, and operate production ML systems, work across data pipelines, model training, inference, and monitoring, and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment that values ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on machine learning or AI systems.
• Experience building and operating production ML systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Java.
• Proven experience with LLMs, ranking or recommendation systems, search, or applied NLP.
• Solid understanding of modern ML techniques, including deep learning and representation learning.
• Experience contributing to system design and technical decision‑making.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core components of our AI platform: production-grade ML systems, LLM workflows, and supporting infrastructure that power core user experiences for individual investors.
• Own end-to-end delivery of AI features from data pipelines and training workflows to inference and monitoring. Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards and mentor peers to elevate ML quality.
• Solve complex technical problems with moderate ambiguity and strong business impact.
• Participate in code reviews and incident retrospectives to improve system quality and reliability.
• Support the team’s overall technical growth.
• Identify and mitigate risks in AI systems, including performance regressions, bias, and operational issues.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

LLMs

NLP

Machine Learning

Data Pipelines

Model Training

Inference

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

StockStory VERSANT, now part of CNBC under VERSANT, is building the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors with a startup‑like environment and the backing of a public company.

The Senior ML Engineer will design, build, and operate production ML systems, work across data pipelines, model training, inference, and monitoring, and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment that values ownership and impact.