Senior ML Engineer: Production ML & MLOps Lead

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Attain in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer to own our production ML systems and build the MLOps platform powering our B2C financial services. You will design, build, and operate pipelines, feature infrastructure, and model-serving across our app portfolio, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

This hands-on role blends software and ML engineering with DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production ML systems.
• Strong software and platform engineering fundamentals.
• Experience deploying ML models in production with CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and operate production ML systems at scale.
• Develop pipelines, feature infrastructure, and model-serving layers.
• Design observability, monitoring, and automated retraining.
• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy models safely.
• Drive efficiency and speed with MLOps tooling and IaC.

Skills

ML Engineering

MLOps

Python

Kubernetes

Terraform

GCP

CI/CD

Model Serving

SQL

BigQuery

Education

CS/Stats degree

Tools

Docker

Airflow

Grafana

BigQuery

Job description

Attain in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer to own our production ML systems and build the MLOps platform powering our B2C financial services. You will design, build, and operate pipelines, feature infrastructure, and model-serving across our app portfolio, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

This hands-on role blends software and ML engineering with DevOps practices.