Senior ML Engineer — Hands-On Production AI & Scoring

Talentify; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentify is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build, validate, and deploy production ML models focused on scoring, risk, and decision support. You will own end-to-end model development from data exploration to production readiness, collaborating with leadership to shape problem definition and strategy.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with predictive scores, interpretable models, and a strong engineering mindset, able to operate in a fast-moving, startup-like environment

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience in machine learning, data science, software engineering, analytics engineering, applied AI, or related technical fields.
• 3 years of hands-on machine learning model development experience, including feature engineering, model training, validation, evaluation, and iteration.
• 2 years of experience deploying, operationalizing, or supporting models in production or business-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, validate, and improve ML models for scoring, prediction, prioritization, risk detection, engagement, and decision support.
• Perform exploratory data analysis, data quality assessment, feature engineering, model training, model selection, and performance evaluation.
• Develop practical models that balance predictive performance, explainability, stability, maintainability, and business usefulness.
• Work with structured, semi-structured, and operational data to create model-ready datasets and reusable features.
• Use tools such as Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, MLflow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, or similar platforms and libraries.
• Move quickly from data exploration to prototype to validated model to production-ready capability.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML Deployment

Feature Engineering

Explainability

Production ML

Tools

Azure ML

Azure Databricks

Spark

MLflow

XGBoost

Snowflake

scikit-learn

Job description

Talentify is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build, validate, and deploy production ML models focused on scoring, risk, and decision support. You will own end-to-end model development from data exploration to production readiness, collaborating with leadership to shape problem definition and strategy.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with predictive scores, interpretable models, and a strong engineering mindset, able to operate in a fast-moving, startup-like environment