Senior ML Software Engineer — Production ML & Platform Lead

Global Payments Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Senior ML Software Engineer to lead design, deployment, and operation of high‑profile ML products within a cross‑functional agile team. You will own features end‑to‑end, maintain platform reliability, and contribute to shared ML tooling and platform evolution.

The role emphasizes production readiness, low latency ML solutions, and collaboration with ML researchers and platform engineers to deliver scalable outcomes in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production ML software engineering experience.
• Proven deployment of ML models into production environments.
• Strong Python and ML/Data libraries.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration on AWS.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to monitor and optimize production ML systems.
• Experience with OpenAPI/FastAPI or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy new features and enhancements to ML products, collaborating with Product and ML Research teams to refine requirements.
• Technical ownership of existing and new production ML products in your area, ensuring alignment of technical investments with business goals and engineering best practices.
• End-to-end technical stewardship of ML products, ensuring ongoing reliability and performance.
• Contribute to the evolution of the shared ML platform alongside other engineers to drive best practices and shared tooling across all products.
• Maintain and improve automated CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and monitoring/logging, ensuring high operational standards.
• Conduct comprehensive code reviews to enforce coding standards, improve code quality, and share knowledge.
• Identify and implement opportunities for process, tooling, and system improvements, proactively addressing technical debt and scaling challenges.
• Oversee pre-release testing, coordinate releases and ensure smooth enablement of new features.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers and data scientists to solve complex technical challenges.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, supporting their professional growth.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Proactively identify and resolve blockers, navigate processes, and independently seek out information and connect with relevant teams to drive solutions in the face of ambiguity.
• Operate with a strong sense of urgency, consistently prioritizing and executing tasks to meet timelines and deliver results.

Skills

ML-focused software engineer

Python programming

ML model deployment

API design

CI/CD pipelines

AWS cloud services

OpenAPI/FastAPI

Containerization & orchestration

Production monitoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Senior ML Software Engineer to lead design, deployment, and operation of high‑profile ML products within a cross‑functional agile team. You will own features end‑to‑end, maintain platform reliability, and contribute to shared ML tooling and platform evolution.

The role emphasizes production readiness, low latency ML solutions, and collaboration with ML researchers and platform engineers to deliver scalable outcomes in a fast‑paced environment.