Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Concurrency Inc.
Location: Washington, DC 20510
Description:
Who We AreAt Concurrency, we embody innovation. We're not just tech consultants; we are forward thinkers with a purpose. Our team thrives on disrupting the norm, constantly seeking the next challenge and pushing boundaries to redefine what's achievable. Recognized as a Microsoft Gold Partner, a ServiceNow Elite Partner, and recipient of multiple Partner of the Year awards, Concurrency is synonymous with excellence. If you're fueled by the desire to transform technology into real-world solutions, join us and unleash your potential as a change catalyst.Who We're Looking ForWe're excited to add a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to our Data & AI team. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and engineering ML systems that solve customer problems across Manufacturing, Retail, Agriculture, Education, Hospitality, and more. You'llserve as a forward-thinking technical thought leader with a passionfor aligning technical solutions tocustomer and businessneeds.At Concurrency, we believe in living out our core values every day. These principles guide our actions, decisions, and interactions:Be Yourself: Be the best version of your whole self. Your authenticity matters.Be Bold: Bravely and respectfully take risks and challenge the norm.Have a Growth Mindset: Be open to learning and apply your expertise.Be the Difference: Ensure that every interaction with your colleagues, clients and community improves their lives. Pay it forward.Assume Positive Intent: Lead with giving the benefit of the doubt.What You'll Do
- You'll help our data science team grow by sharing your ideas, challenging status quo, and influencing the direction of the team
- You'll demonstrate a broad knowledge of ML approaches and are pragmatic about solutions. E.g., you create business value and fit models
- You'll work across supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning approaches while being comfortable using inferential statistics, time series, LLMs, or computer vision approaches to solve a given problem (we don't expect expertise in all!)
- You'll design, engineer, test, document, and explain production ML systems in Azure, Python, SQL, and Git
- You'll take the lead gathering input from non-technical customer stakeholders and senior IT leadership to plan what to build and set project scope
- You'll frame complex problems and propose options to either use data when it's available or pursue alternatives when it's not
- You'll take the lead in technical design discussions, remove blockers, and align stakeholders
- You'll use Big Data tools (Databricks, Spark, Azure, SQL, Python) to carry out supporting analyses and build production solutions
- You'll fit, tune, test, validate, and deploy ML models in an MLOps setting to solve real-world problems
- You'll discuss project issues and topics simply when presenting to customers
- Strong coding skill in SQL and Python (especially pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, Tensorflow/PyTorch)
- Experience designing and implementing LLM systems. (Multi-tooled single agents, multi-agent systems, custom routing and gateways)
- Relative experience (~20+ projects) in cloud development. Azure is preferred but AWS and GCP are acceptable too
- Professional experience using Databricks/Spark and Docker/Kubernetes
- 7+ years experience owning ML systems from idea to maintenance
- Demonstrable thought leadership evidenced by an active GitHub, blog posts, or publication record
- Deeply curious and motivated by challenge. Does not shy away from potential failure
- Willing to challenge the status quo to propose improvements
- Can communicate simply and intuitively to diverse audiences with varying technical background
- Proven success with--and interest in--owning end-to-end projects solo but knowing when to escalate and delegate
- Experience with--and interest indeveloping in a production MLOps setting
- Practical experience with tools for the ML lifecycle, including EDA, data prep, data verification, modeling, testing, deploying, and relevant object-oriented software development tasks
- Experience using data visualization to understand and persuade
- Having most of the above characteristics and experiences
- Above average experience in cloud development
- Strong software engineering experience
- Experience working in a professional services organization
- Product mentality but a professional services approach