Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Join SADA as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Your Mission 

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at SADA, you will work in a fast-paced, highly-skilled team developing state-of-the-art enterprise solutions. You will work collaboratively with architects and other engineers to recommend, prototype, build, and debug machine learning (ML) solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for SADA's clients.  You will work on real-world data problems, designing and implementing cloud-native ML and AI solutions, with a strong focus on Google’s Vertex AI platform and related technologies. This is a hands-on role that includes both architecting and implementing ML/AI solutions, from initial requirements gathering through final model deployment, including iterative measurement and improvement.

You will be responsible for building and deploying ML solutions using cloud ML pipelines, often collaborating with data scientists and data engineers. This role often involves working with large volumes of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources in multiple modalities, requiring you to design and implement data pipelines to clean and merge data for research and modeling. You will provide subject matter expertise and assistance to SADA's clients and your colleagues on artificial intelligence and machine learning topics, participating in client-facing discussions and assisting with technical pre-sales discussions. As an established contributor, you will develop critical components for ML projects, often working independently with minimal oversight.

Machine learning is an extremely dynamic and quick-changing discipline, requiring a passion for continuous learning and a knack for problem-solving. Your approach for learning new technology will be as important as any prior knowledge. While your core focus will be on machine learning and MLOps, the field increasingly intersects with broader artificial intelligence and generative AI concepts. Therefore, familiarity and practical experience with advanced AI topics such as LLM fine-tuning, agentic AI development and multimodal data processing are highly valued and contribute significantly to success in this role.

Your day-to-day will consist of the following activities:

• Implementing machine learning solutions for SADA clients across all project stages, from requirements gathering, discovery, and architecture, to development, testing, and final model deployment, including iterative measurement and improvement
• Recommending, prototyping, building, and debugging machine learning (ML) infrastructures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Working on real-world data problems by developing custom models or using existing Google ML APIs
• Building and deploying ML solutions using cloud ML pipelines
• Providing subject matter expertise and assistance to SADA clients and colleagues on machine learning topics
• Creating technical documentation and leading solution design discussions
• Assisting with technical pre-sales discussions and the creation of statements of work 

Expectations

Customer-Facing - Daily interactions with customers, including standups or sales meetings; at other times, weekly/bi-weekly as for sprint planning, reviews/retrospectives, or demos. These interactions will be with roles ranging from engineers to key executive stakeholders.

Travel - Up to 35% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events. Otherwise, this is a remote position and we expect candidates that have demonstrated success working in remote, distributed teams.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• Google Professional Machine Learning Certification (within 90 days of hire)

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant work experience designing and implementing Machine Learning solutions, preferably in a technical consulting environment
• Proficiency in Python with extensive experience across data manipulation (e.g., Pandas, Polars, NumPy), scientific computing (e.g., SciPy), and machine learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Strong foundational understanding of machine learning principles and hands-on experience with various model types, including supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning architectures
• Experience with data exploration, cleaning, and feature engineering from diverse, often messy, datasets to prepare them for modeling. This includes experience processing, cleansing, and verifying data integrity for analysis
• Familiarity with MLOps practices and tools for model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and pipeline orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, MLflow, Airflow)
• Solid understanding of the Google Cloud Platform for data storage (e.g., Cloud Storage, BigQuery), compute (e.g., Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine), and ML services, particularly Vertex AI and BigQueryML
• Experience working with interactive development environments like JupyterLab and Vertex AI Workbench
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to tackle complex, ambiguous challenges across the entire machine learning lifecycle
• Strong consultative skills, including the ability to translate complex ML concepts into actionable business strategies and solutions, and to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of internal and external stakeholders

Useful Qualifications:

• Experience with large language models (LLMs) and generative AI concepts, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and integrating AI solutions into applications
• Experience in specialized domains of machine learning such as natural language processing, computer vision, time-series analysis, recommender systems or reinforcement learning
• Experience working with other Google Cloud-related data products (Datalab, Dataprep, Cloud Storage, PubSub, Dataflow, Dataproc, etc.)
• Exposure to model serving frameworks such as LLM and FastAPI and GCP services used for model and API serving such as Cloud Run and GKE

About SADA An Insight company

Values: SADA stands for inclusion, fairness, and doing the right thing. From our very beginning, we’ve championed a diverse workplace where we support and learn from each other, amplifying the impact we make with our customers. We’re proud that our teams are composed of contributors who represent a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our three core values are the foundation of everything we do:

1. Hunger
2. Heart
3. Harmony

Work with the Best: SADA has been the largest Google Cloud partner in North America since 2016 and, for the eighth year in a row, has been named a Google Global Partner of the Year . This year, SADA was named a Google Cloud Global Partner of the year 2024. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group and Inc. Magazine, and was recognized as a Niche Player in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services.

Benefits: Unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, competitive and attractive compensation,  performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, generous medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K/RRSP with match, as well as Google-certified training programs and a professional development stipend.

Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for the last 10+ years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers list for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads, and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.

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