Senior ML Engineer — Build Production AI for Collectibles

Collectors Holdings, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Collectors is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our AI/ML team and scale applied ML across vision, multimodal data, and agentic workflows. You will partner with product, engineering, operations, and domain experts to turn ambiguous problems into reliable ML solutions.

You’ll own end-to-end projects from framing to deployment, with measurable outcomes and post‑launch monitoring, delivering production‑grade pipelines and tooling while balancing quality, latency, and cost.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, or a closely related software engineering field.
• Strong hands‑on experience building and shipping machine learning systems in production, including data preparation, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python and common ML tooling, along with solid software engineering fundamentals such as testing, modular design, observability, and version control.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy end-to-end machine learning systems that support AI/ML product initiatives
• Own projects from problem framing through implementation, evaluation, launch, and post‑launch monitoring, with clear accountability for outcomes
• Develop production‑grade computer vision, multimodal, and agentic pipeline solutions that can ingest images and other inputs, reason over uncertainty, and return structured, reliable outputs
• Build and improve data pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that ensure training and inference systems remain accurate, scalable, and maintainable over time
• Partner with annotation, operations, product, and domain experts to define data requirements, labeling standards, success metrics, and rollout plans
• Translate experimental findings into clear technical recommendations, balancing model quality, latency, cost, and operational complexity
• Contribute high-quality code, documentation, and technical design artifacts, and collaborate effectively through design reviews, code reviews, and cross‑functional discussions

Skills

ML experience

Python

Production ML

Computer vision

Multimodal modeling

Information extraction

LLM-based systems

Evaluation methodologies

System design

Communication

Ownership

Job description

Collectors is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our AI/ML team and scale applied ML across vision, multimodal data, and agentic workflows. You will partner with product, engineering, operations, and domain experts to turn ambiguous problems into reliable ML solutions.

You’ll own end-to-end projects from framing to deployment, with measurable outcomes and post‑launch monitoring, delivering production‑grade pipelines and tooling while balancing quality, latency, and cost.