Machine Learning Engineer

Join Boise Cascade’s Wood Products Innovation team to develop and deploy AI solutions that improve mill operations. You will support and enhance True Opportunity, our manufacturing optimization platform, while delivering applied machine learning, generative and agentic AI, machine vision, IIoT, predictive maintenance, and process-monitoring solutions across our manufacturing plants.

You will work with plant, regional, IT, and external partners to move solutions from proof of concept through pilot and into scalable, governed production use.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, support, and enhance the True Opportunity (TO) system for the Wood Products division.
• Design, deploy, monitor, and improve machine learning and AI solutions, from data preparation through production monitoring.
• Build and maintain data pipelines using the division’s Azure data platform.
• Develop agentic AI and LLM applications using tools such as retrieval, tool use, context engineering, and evaluation.
• Use AI coding tools while applying strong testing, code review, and validation practices.
• Support projects involving machine learning, generative AI, machine vision, IIoT, predictive maintenance, and process monitoring.
• Establish and follow standards for data, models, code, deployment, documentation, governance, and security.
• Partner with plants and regional teams on implementation, upgrades, data capture, metric calculations, and user training.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, project support, and stakeholder updates.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, requirements, vendors, and change orders.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and apply those that provide practical business value.
• Support integration between True Opportunity (TO) and other Boise Cascade systems.
• Promote safety, quality, environmental awareness, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in applied machine learning, data engineering, or AI development.
• Demonstrated success delivering AI or data science solutions into practical use.
• Experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Codex, and with developing LLM applications or agent harnesses.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with the ability to validate AI-generated code, models, and results.
• Experience taking models from development through deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Working knowledge of Azure, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and related services such as ADLS, App Service, and Azure AI Foundry.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across functions and organizational levels.
• Willingness to provide mentoring and training.

Frequent travel to Wood Products facilities is required; approximately 25% travel may be expected for employees based outside the area.

Salary Range for this role is $100,000 - $150,000 DOE

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Preferred Qualifications

•  Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Manufacturing experience, especially in the wood products industry.
• Experience with industrial systems such as Allen-Bradley PLCs, Ignition SCADA, OPC UA, MQTT, or historians.
• Experience with computer vision, edge deployment, time-series modeling, or anomaly detection.
• Familiarity with lakehouse and columnar data technologies, including Parquet, DuckDB, and medallion architecture.
• Azure certification such as AI-102 or DP-100, or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating data management, creativity, and initiative.

About Boise Cascade

At Boise Cascade, you’ll find a place where you can do meaningful work, develop your talents, and build a lasting career. With a wide range of learning opportunities for all experience levels, we’re committed to providing avenues for continuous growth. When you join our team, you become part of a connected workplace culture where we look out for one another, do the right thing, work safely, treat people with respect, and continually look for ways to improve. Boise Cascade is one of the largest U.S. wholesale distributors of building materials and a leading manufacturer of engineered wood products and plywood in North America. We bring people, products, and services together to build strong homes, businesses, and communities. We operate more than 60 distribution and manufacturing facilities across the U.S. and Canada, and our work is powered by a dedicated team of over 7,500 people. Build your future with us. Learn more at www.bc.com. Boise Cascade, we build opportunities, communities, and careers. As one of the largest U.S. wholesale distributors of building materials and a leading manufacturer of engineered wood products and plywood in North America, our success begins with our people.

Our Benefits

WE SUPPORT YOUR WELLBEING.

Our people are the most important part of what we do. That’s why we provide benefits and resources to support the financial, physical, and mental well-being of everyone who works at Boise Cascade. We invest in associates by offering a comprehensive benefits package called Total Rewards, designed to have a positive impact on your overall well-being. 

• Medical + Prescription Drug
• Dental + Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare + Dependent Care)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings with company contribution
• Paid Time Off (20 days per year)
• Paid Holidays (10 per year)
• Paid Parental Leave (6 weeks)
• Life Insurance

Maine Employer Surveillance Notice: Boise Cascade uses limited monitoring of company-owned devices, systems, and networks to support business operations, protect company information, and help ensure policy and legal compliance. We do not place monitoring or recording devices in an associate’s home or personal vehicle, and we do not install monitoring software on an associate’s personal device or other associate-owned property unless required to perform essential job duties and with the associate’s notice and authorization. Company-provided devices, accounts, and network access are company property, and associates should not expect privacy when using them or when communicating, storing, or transferring information through Boise Cascade systems (including when accessed from a personal device). Any audio or video recording beyond routine business monitoring will be conducted only as part of a lawful investigation and only with the direction and approval of Corporate Security and the General Counsel, and Boise Cascade will provide notice of employer surveillance as required by Maine law.

Connecticut Electronic Monitoring Notice: Boise Cascade may conduct electronic monitoring without prior written notice when it has reasonable grounds to believe that an associate is engaged in conduct that violates the law, violates the legal rights of Boise Cascade or another associate, or creates a hostile workplace environment, and the monitoring may produce evidence of that misconduct. Examples may include unauthorized access, theft or misuse of company information, unlawful disclosure of confidential information, harassment through company systems, or other suspected misconduct. Such monitoring must be authorized and conducted in accordance with applicable law and Boise Cascade procedures.