Machine Learning Engineer, AI Decisioning

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Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligence Layer

Location: Remote (North America)

Company Stage of Funding: Series C ($92M raised)

Office Type: Remote

Salary: $200,000 - $260,000 + Competitive Equity

Company Description

Our client is a rapidly growing data activation platform that helps hundreds of companies sync data from their warehouses and databases into their operational systems and SaaS tools. Their platform enables business users to take action on their data without writing code, streamlining critical processes, improving marketing performance, and scaling operations.

With an impressive client roster including major players in finance, tech, sports, and entertainment, this company is revolutionizing how businesses leverage their customer data. Founded in 2018 by early employees of a leading customer data platform, they've secured significant funding and are expanding their innovative product offerings.

What You Will Do

As the founding Machine Learning Engineer for their new intelligence layer, you'll help build comprehensive solutions from the ground up that will have a step-function impact for their customers. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the direction of AI-powered features that will transform how companies leverage customer data for messaging and engagement.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing personalization and product recommendation systems that help companies deliver the most relevant content to each user
• Creating frameworks for automated experimentation to help clients intelligently navigate messaging options
• Building predictive audience models to identify users most likely to convert, churn, or take desired actions
• Implementing content generation capabilities leveraging recent advances in LLMs to help marketers create compelling text, images, and creatives
• Designing budget optimization tools to help companies assess marketing spend effectiveness and identify where marginal customer acquisition costs are lowest
• Conducting customer research to understand pain points and define machine learning solutions
• Building robust machine learning infrastructure to support these new capabilities
• Partnering directly with customers to implement and refine solutions

I

deal Candidate Background

• 4+ years of experience in machine learning and software engineering
• Strong track record building 0-to-1 products leveraging machine learning
• Experience developing recommendation systems and marketing-oriented features
• Demonstrated ability in both machine learning modeling and backend engineering
• Experience with backend infrastructure and distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Strong product intuition and customer-centric approach

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying products using LLMs
• Track record of seeing companies through periods of significant growth
• Strong career progression demonstrating increasing responsibility and technical depth
• Background in data activation, customer data platforms, or marketing technology
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $200,000 - $260,000
• Meaningful equity package
• Flexible PTO
• Quarterly wellness days
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Parental leave (up to 16 weeks)
• Professional development budget for classes, books, and conferences
• Monthly connectivity stipend
• Commuter benefits
• 401k plan