Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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Member of the Hiscox US Data Engineering practice

Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Reporting to: Director of Data Engineering

Location: Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Boston, Connecticut (Hybrid – Remote/Office)

The Role:

You will be a machine learning specialist, part of our US Data Engineering chapter. You will work closely with our data engineers and data scientists to bridge the gap between model development and production deployment. You will be hands-on developing integrations, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines for machine learning models. You should be comfortable reading, questioning, and interpreting machine learning models to ensure they are deployed appropriately and effectively

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Developing and maintaining infrastructure for deploying ML models in both real-time and batch environments.

• Building and maintaining endpoints to serve ML models.

• Collaborating with cross discipline engineers to integrate ML services into user-facing applications.

• Working with platform engineers to align with infrastructure best practices and ensure scalable deployments.

• Reviewing pull requests and contributing to code quality across our teams.

• Monitoring and maintaining cloud-based ML services, ensuring reliability and performance.

• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for ML model deployment.

• Writing unit tests and following software engineering principles to ensure code is maintainable.

• Contributing to the development and improvement to our model registry, including tracking and implementation of model discontinuation upgrades and model monitoring.

Essential Skills:

• Solid experience as a Python developer, ideally in a machine learning engineering context

• Hands-on experience of integrated cloud data science platforms particularly Databricks or GCP

• Good understanding of core data science principles and understanding of challenges of migrating research code into production code.

• Strong understanding of software engineering best practice.

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform

• Experience with CI/CD tools and Git-based development workflows.

• Understanding of API operations monitoring and logging.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently on technical tasks.

• Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical team members in agile Scrum ceremonies – roadmap planning, feature workshops, backlog elaboration, code review.

Desirable Skills:

Beyond the required skills we are open to individuals of diverse talents. Experience with additional technologies, real-time data platforms or an insurance background are all valued. We want to know how your unique abilities can contribute to our team.

Our Technology:

We operate in a diverse technical landscape and are looking for flexible engineers who can adapt to and use many different tools. We would not expect any engineer to be familiar with the entire tech stack – no engineer can. Instead, we seek people with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms and the ability to apply this knowledge in learning new tools.

We are building a modern cloud data platform to realise the full value of our data. It will be based on Databricks and use dbt for transformation.

For machine learning we are still building our capabilities. We are likely to deploy models in our Databricks environment using tools like MLflow. We will explore the offerings of other cloud providers e.g. GCP to ensure we are using the most advanced tools available.

We take a DevOps approach and strive for continuous integration / continuous deployment. We use Azure Pipelines  to deploy our code. We deploy infrastructure the same way using Terraform and Docker.

Our technology landscape is not complete. Our engineering teams will be able and required to help us build out our technology stack to fill gaps and embrace new opportunities.

What Hiscox USA Offers:

• Competitive salary and bonus (based on personal & company performance) 

• 401(k) with competitive company matching 

• Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental and FSA plans (medical, limited purpose, and dependent care)  

• Company paid group term life, short- term disability and long-term disability coverage 

• 24 Paid time off days, 2 Hiscox Days, 10 paid holidays, and ability to purchase 5 PTO days 

• Paid parental leave 

• 4 week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service 

• Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs 

• Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with any fitness program 

• Company paid subscription to Headspace to support employees’ mental health and wellbeing 

• Recipient of 2024 Cigna’s Well-Being Award for having a best-in-class health and wellness program 

• Dynamic, creative and values-driven culture 

• Modern and open office spaces, complimentary drinks 

**Please note that this position is hybrid and requires two (2) days in our office weekly**

Salary Range: $120-$180k

The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

About Hiscox:

As an international specialist insurer, we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead, we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.

We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong.

Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions. Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places. Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.

About Hiscox US:

Hiscox USA was established in 2006 to focus on the needs underserved and specialty commercial clients via both the regional broker and direct distribution channels and is today the fastest-growing business unit within the Hiscox Group. Today, Hiscox USA has a talent force of about 400 employees mostly operating out of 6 major cities - New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Hiscox USA offers a broad portfolio of commercial products, including technology, cyber & data risk, multiple professional liability lines, media, entertainment, management liability, crime, kidnap & ransom, commercial property and terrorism.

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