Machine Learning Engineer

Northwest Partners is partnering with a premier client in the software industry to hire an experienced full-time Machine Learning Engineer to work with a dynamic team building the client future technology solution. You will be joining the Message Detection Decisioning team, the team plays a central role in building an extremely precise Detection Engine that operates on hundreds of millions of messages with millisecond latency, applying hundreds of signals and detectors based on the message and user context to compute final decisions and drive various metrics.

What YOU Will Do

• Design and implement systems that combine rules, models, feature engineering, and business and product inputs into an email detection product.
• Identify and recommend new feature groups or ML model approaches that can significantly improve detection efficacy for the product.
• Work with infrastructure and systems engineers to productionize signals to feed into the detection system.
• Understand features that distinguish safe emails from email attacks, and how our detector stack enables us to catch them.
• Be the expert in main detection pipelines and decision data flow to drive debugging in systematic degradations caused by bad detectors.
• Write code with testability, readability, edge cases, and errors in mind.
• Train models on well-defined datasets to improve model efficacy on specialized attacks.
• Actively monitor and improve False Positive rates and efficacy rates for our message detection product attack categories through feature engineering, rules, and ML modeling.
• Analyze False Negative and False Positive datasets to categorize capability gaps and recommend short-term feature and rule ideas to improve our detection efficacy.
• Contribute to other areas of the stack: building and debugging data pipelines or presenting results back to customers in our tools when the occasion arises.
• Lead the team’s medium and long-term roadmap and drive planning and execution strategy for the pod.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers to uplevel their code quality and ML effectiveness by providing quality code reviews and design reviews.
• Participate in building a world-class detection engine across all layers - data quality, feature engineering, model development, experimentation, and operation.
  
  

What YOU Will Bring Us

• A track record of success in translating business requirements into scalable, maintainable systems with a bias toward simpler but iterative systems.
• 4+ years of experience with production ML systems - understanding the pillars of a modern ML stack and the development, maintenance, and tuning processes of ML models.
• A systematic approach to debugging both data and system issues within ML/heuristics models.
• Proficiency with Python and machine learning libraries like numpy and scikit-learn.
• Experience with data analytics and wielding SQL, pandas, and spark framework to build data and metric generation pipelines and answer critical questions about system efficacy or counterfactual treatments.
• Independent responsibility for the entire lifecycle of projects or features, including engineering design, development, and deployment.
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive projects over the finish line.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• An MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other related engineering fields (Nice to Have).
• Experience with big data or statistics (Nice to Have).
• Familiarity with the cybersecurity industry (Nice to Have).
  
  

About Northwest Partners

Comprehensive benefits available to full-time employees.

Northwest Partners is an equal opportunity employer. At Northwest Partners, we are dedicated to moving at the speed of innovation. We work with clients across the globe to provide exceptional knowledge, talent, and resources. As a trusted partner, we merge the client's vision with our expertise to deliver powerful results. Northwest Partners is known for building and managing elite teams in technology across diverse industries. Our mission is to empower every talent and every client to achieve more.

Learn More About Northwest Partners

Northwest Partners is dedicated to moving at the speed of its clients innovation. We work with clients across the globe to provide exceptional knowledge, talent, and resources. As a trusted partner, we merge the client vision with our expertise to deliver powerful results. Northwest Partners is known for building and managing elite teams in technology across diverse industries. Our mission is to empower every talent and every client to achieve more.