Senior ML Engineer - Vision & Multimodal in Production

DK Crown Holdings; United States; On-site; USD 134,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

DraftKings is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and optimize computer vision and multimodal models. You will build scalable data pipelines and deploy models in production on cloud infrastructure, with a focus on accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with Engineering and Operations, own evaluation frameworks, and mentor teammates while advancing data infrastructure and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering/Math/Data Science
• 3+ years of machine learning engineering experience
• Proven experience deploying ML models in production
• Strong Python and software engineering practices (testing, data validation, async)
• Hands-on with computer vision, multimodal/vision-language models and frameworks like PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT, vLLM
• Experience with model fine-tuning, prompt design, evaluation, image processing with OpenCV
• Experience with cloud ML platforms (Google Cloud) and container/orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Datadog)
• Strong ownership, problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills
• Familiarity with Kotlin/Java or protocols is a plus; regulated industries experience helpful

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and optimize CV and multimodal models converting inputs into structured data
• Fine-tune and evaluate multimodal models to improve accuracy, speed, and cost
• Build scalable data pipelines for production data prep, testing, and evaluation
• Develop robust evaluation metrics and deployment decision frameworks
• Deploy and manage ML models on scalable cloud infrastructure with automation
• Integrate models into real-time systems including image preprocessing and barcode decoding
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to improve workflows and systems
• Contribute to data infra with code reviews, docs, tests, and mentorship

Skills

Python

ML engineering

Computer vision

Multimodal models

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

PEFT

OpenCV

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Datadog

OpenCV

PEFT

vLLM

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

GCC/CI tooling

Job description

DraftKings is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and optimize computer vision and multimodal models. You will build scalable data pipelines and deploy models in production on cloud infrastructure, with a focus on accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with Engineering and Operations, own evaluation frameworks, and mentor teammates while advancing data infrastructure and governance.