Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About Fusemachines

Fusemachines is a leading AI strategy, talent, and education services provider. Founded by Sameer Maskey Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University, Fusemachines has a core mission of democratizing AI. With a presence in 4 countries (Neb. and more than 450 full-time employees, Fusemachines brings global AI expertise to transform companies worldwide. Founded in 2013, Fusemachines is a global provider of enterprise AI products and services, on a mission to democratize AI.

Leveraging proprietary AI Studio and AI Engines, the company helps drive the clients’ AI Enterprise Transformation, regardless of where they are in their Digital AI journeys. With offices in North America, Asia, and Latin America, Fusemachines provides a suite of enterprise AI offerings and specialty services that allow organizations of any size to implement and scale AI. Fusemachines serves companies in industries such as retail, manufacturing, and government.

Fusemachines continues to actively pursue the mission of democratizing AI for the masses by providing high-quality AI education in underserved communities and helping organizations achieve their full potential with AI.

Type:
Remote, Full-time

Role Overview

We’re hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to architect, build, and deploy high-performance machine learning systems that power technology stack. You will work across the entire ML lifecycle—from processing massive volumes of data to developing and deploying low-latency models.

You must possess a strong hybrid skill set: deep expertise in applied machine learning combined with production-grade software engineering skills. You will not just build models in notebooks; you will write scalable, production-ready code, design real-time inference APIs, and ensure your systems meet strict latency and high-throughput requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Scale Data Engineering & Feature Pipelines

• Process and extract features from massive, highly sparse datasets (terabytes/petabytes of bidstream and user event data) using SQL, Python, and distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Ray).
• Architect offline and online feature pipelines. Manage real-time feature computation and low-latency feature stores ensuring zero online/offline skew.
• Perform rigorous missingness analysis, leakage checks, and handle high-cardinality categorical variables safely.

Core ML & Deep Learning Development

• Train, tune, and scale supervised learning models, utilizing advanced gradient boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM, Cat Boost) and Factorization Machines.
• Design and implement Deep Learning architectures for structured/recommendation data using PyTorch or Tensor Flow.
• Apply rigorous tabular modeling practices: meticulous leakage prevention, class imbalance strategies, and robust cross-validation on time-split data.

Productionization, MLOps, & System Engineering

• Write clean, object-oriented, and modular production code. Transition models from Python research environments to high-performance serving environments (packaging with ONNX, TensorRT, etc).
• Design and maintain robust MLOps pipelines: automated model retraining, versioning, shadow deployments, and CI/CD for machine learning.
• Monitor production models for data drift, concept drift, and performance degradation in real-time, implementing automated alerting and fallback mechanisms.

Evaluation & Experimentation

• Design rigorous A/B and multivariate tests to measure the true business incrementality of ML models.
• Choose appropriate offline metrics (PR-AUC, normalized Entropy/Log Loss, Calibration, Lift) and bridge them to online business KPIs.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• You deliver models that perform well and move business metrics (revenue lift, cost reduction, risk reduction,…