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[Remote] Senior Machine Learning Engineer

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DailyPay is a provider of on-demand pay and financial wellness solutions that helps employers modernize how people get paid. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will mature and scale machine learning infrastructure, design end-to-end MLOps solutions, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of production ML systems.

Responsibilities

  • Platform Ownership: Help architect and build DailyPay's unified ML platform - a unified system for model development, deployment, and monitoring that serves as the backbone for every AI and ML capability at the company
  • MLOps Architecture & Delivery: Design and implement scalable ML pipelines covering model training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Own the delivery of end-to-end MLOps solutions with minimal oversight
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure for machine learning workloads, balancing cost-effectiveness, security, and availability
  • CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment of ML models and related infrastructure
  • Monitoring & Observability: Design monitoring and alerting systems for ML infrastructure and models using tools like Datadog. Proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact production
  • Technical Leadership: Lead design discussions, contribute to architectural decisions, and establish team norms for how ML systems are built, tested, and maintained. Help identify and remove blockers
  • Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers. Share domain knowledge and help build genuine technical depth on the team
  • Security & Compliance: Approach all engineering work with a security lens. Actively look for vulnerabilities in code and during peer reviews. Ensure ML pipelines handle sensitive data in accordance with company policy

Skills

  • • 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, MLOps, or data engineering
  • • Strong cloud platform proficiency: AWS preferred (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, EC2, IAM, ECS), or equivalent GCP (Vertex AI, Cloud Functions, GCS, Compute Engine, Cloud Run) or Azure (Azure ML, Functions, Blob Storage, VMs, AKS) experience
  • • Proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
  • • Solid CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions or equivalent; designing and operating deployment pipelines
  • • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
  • • Knowledge of event streaming platforms (Apache Kafka or equivalent)
  • • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana)
  • • Strong SQL skills and experience with data pipeline tooling (dbt, Glue, Snowflake)
  • • Excellent communication skills; comfortable working across data science, engineering, and product teams
  • • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • • Familiarity with microservices architecture and RESTful API design
  • • Experience in fintech or regulated industries
  • • Contributions to open-source ML or MLOps projects

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement
  • Peer advocacy and transparent career development
  • An inclusive, professional environment

Company Overview

  • DailyPay provides on-demand pay solutions for employees, allowing them to access earned wages before payday. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.dailypay.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • DailyPay has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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