Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Doma; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid time off

Stock options

HSA

401(k) with company match

Disability insurance

Job summary

Doma Technology LLC is hiring a Staff ML Engineer to build and deploy production-grade machine learning systems for title insurance and real estate risk assessment. You’ll own scalable ML products driving underwriting efficiency and business insights, with collaboration across data engineers, product teams, and domain experts.

You will lead end-to-end model development, monitoring, and optimization in a regulated domain, balancing innovation with reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years developing and deploying models in a cloud-based production environment following MLOps and engineering best practices.
• Depth in supervised learning on tabular data — feature engineering, class imbalance, label definition, and threshold selection with the business tradeoffs behind it.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating models in production over time — tracking degradation, drift, and error rates, and turning that into a defensible account of what changed and why
• Strong applied statistics. You can decompose a metric change into its drivers and defend the decomposition.
• You’re the reviewer, not the reviewed. You look for the reason a number might be wrong before a client's reviewer does, and you have a track record of catching problems in other people's analyses and raising the bar around you.
• Fluent with current AI tooling in your own work . You already heavily use LLM-based coding and analysis tools, you have opinions about where they help and where they fail, and you keep up with what's changing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ML systems across the full model lifecycle—from data ingestion and training to deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Serve as a go-to expert in title risk and underwriting for our team and the company. This includes exploring ways to reduce model losses, improve the fidelity of our projected losses, and identify new risks in our domain.
• Collaborate with data engineers, product teams, and domain experts to translate business goals into ML solutions that perform in real-world production environments.
• Conduct ad‑hoc analyses and experimentation to inform modeling decisions and stakeholder strategy.

Skills

Supervised learning on tabular data

Model evaluation and drift analysis

Applied statistics

End-to-end ML project ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Ability to review analyses critically

Familiarity with AI tooling and LLMs

Tools

Python

SQL

Git

Docker

Job description

If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, come work for Doma Technology. About Us Doma Technology LLC offers solutions for lenders, real estate professionals, title agents, and homeowners that make closings vastly simpler and more efficient, reducing cost and increasing customer satisfaction.

Our Values Obsessively Entrepreneurial - We encourage calculated risk-taking, and we know that some of our best learning happens by making mistakes along the way. People First - We communicate with honesty and respect to our customers, colleagues, and partners. Better Together - We believe diversity, equity and inclusion creates value through the differences in our backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Act with Integrity - We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards in all of our business practices.

Job Title: Staff ML Engineer

About the Role

We’re hiring a Staff ML Engineer to build and deploy production-grade machine learning systems that reshape decision-making in the title insurance and real estate sectors. You’ll own the development of robust, scalable ML products that power risk assessment, streamline underwriting, and improve operational efficiency. This role blends deep technical execution with cross-functional collaboration and offers a unique opportunity to apply advanced ML techniques in a highly regulated, high-impact domain.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ML systems across the full model lifecycle—from data ingestion and training to deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Serve as a go-to expert in title risk and underwriting for our team and the company. This includes exploring ways to reduce model losses, improve the fidelity of our projected losses, and identify new risks in our domain.
• Collaborate with data engineers, product teams, and domain experts to translate business goals into ML solutions that perform in real-world production environments.
• Conduct ad‑hoc analyses and experimentation to inform modeling decisions and stakeholder strategy.

Who You Are

• An Owner: You drive work forward with minimal oversight and proactively address challenges.
• Curious: You continuously learn and seek to improve tools, systems, and outcomes—especially in AI and engineering domains.
• Clear Communicator: You can explain technical decisions and concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Product Oriented : You care about measurable impact and shipping reliable, real-world solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years developing and deploying models in a cloud-based production environment following MLOps and engineering best practices, with proficiency in Python, SQL, Git, and Docker
• Depth in supervised learning on tabular data — feature engineering, class imbalance, label definition, and threshold selection with the business tradeoffs behind it.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating models in production over time — tracking degradation, drift, and error rates, and turning that into a defensible account of what changed and why
• Strong applied statistics. You can decompose a metric change into its drivers and defend the decomposition.
• You’re the reviewer, not the reviewed. You look for the reason a number might be wrong before a client's reviewer does, and you have a track record of catching problems in other people's analyses and raising the bar around you.
• Fluent with current AI tooling in your own work . You already heavily use LLM-based coding and analysis tools, you have opinions about where they help and where they fail, and you keep up with what's changing. We’re not looking to persuade anyone that these tools are worth using.
• Track record of owning complex, ambiguous projects end to end and working directly with product and senior leadership — including pushing back on requirements when they’re wrong

Shown below is the lowest to highest base salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the base salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. At Doma, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. This job is also eligible for the following compensation components: Bonus & Equity The base salary range for this role is shown below: $165,200 — $236,300 USD How we’ll value you and make your life a bit easier:

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees (FTE, non-contract): medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave.

• Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)!
• 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity)
• Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family’s needs that all start in the following month following your first day of employment
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with company match program
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance

We believe the most valuable investment we can make is to build an outstanding team of colleagues and leaders who are passionate about our mission.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.