Varo Bank is hiring a
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for an AI/ML Engineer at Varo Bank, a digital bank focused on using modern AI and ML technology to improve financial lives. The role involves building feature pipelines, improving model training, deploying production models, and working with cross-functional teams in various areas.

Requirements

• Must be proficient in a JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala) - technical interview will be in one of these languages
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field & 3 years of experience involving machine learning systems and model building
• Strong programming and software engineering skills
• Experience with some of the following technologies: Java/Kotlin, Python, gRPC, Terraform, Spring, AWS (Sagemaker, Glue), Kubernetes, Airflow, Spark, databases (DynamoDB, Postgres, Athena), Kafka, Docker, ML tools/frameworks (Keras, Tensorflow, SparkML, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.), Grafana, Kibana
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g. making complex ML concepts easy to understand, getting buy-in from stakeholders, getting and giving feedback to teammates, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Build feature pipelines/embeddings for batch and real-time data
• Add functionality for the data science team to improve model training, evaluation, and batch inference at scale
• Build and deploy production ML models (model training, batch and real time inference)
• Improve model monitoring and alerting
• Work on services that are implemented in Python and Java/Kotlin
• Accelerate ML development as the team scales up alongside Varo’s increasing adoption of ML solutions
• Design, implement, and own APIs and integrations between our ML model inference services and the company’s broader engineering systems
• Design, develop, and advocate for ML platform observability, scalability, security, and performance

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field is preferred

Benefits

$140,000 - $180,000 a year