Machine Learning Engineer

Arlo

$180K — $230K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building ML or data infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with experience in processing large datasets using tools like Spark or Databricks.
  • Experience with production model training pipelines and low-latency model serving.
  • Capability to develop tooling that enhances the productivity of data scientists and actuaries.
  • Proven ability to manage systems end-to-end, setting standards and maintaining reliable infrastructure.
  • Interest in hands-on data science work, engaging with modeling tasks. R

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the infrastructure layer for underwriting models using extensive patient data.
  • Ensure scalability, reliability, and reproducibility of model training processes.
  • Create an API layer that delivers real-time quotes from massive datasets.
  • Own the performance aspects of the quoting system, including latency and reliability.
  • Enhance data science iteration through streamlined feature testing and validation processes.
  • Develop infrastructure for backtesting and model performance measurement.
  • Simplify the transition from concept to validated model to encourage experimentation.

Benefits

  • Real responsibility from day one, empowering you to tackle significant challenges.
  • Direct influence on improving healthcare access and outcomes at scale.
  • Opportunities for growth and advancement as the company expands.
  • Apply AI to meaningful healthcare problems, avoiding trivial applications.
  • A collaborative environment that emphasizes velocity and innovative thinking.
Full Job Description
Arlo's underwriting is the core of the business, and it runs on machine learning at serious scale. We're hiring ML Engineer to build and own the infrastructure that powers it - from training models on tens of millions of patients and hundreds of millions of rows of claims data, to serving real-time quotes in seconds against inference-time datasets that run into the trillions of rows. You'll also build the tooling that lets our data scientists and actuaries iterate faster than ever.

This is an ML infrastructure role with real room to do ML and data science. You'll own the platform, but you'll also have the opportunity to work alongside our data scientists and actuaries to test and evaluate your own ideas - not just support theirs.

What You'll Work On

Training infrastructure for underwriting

  • Build and own the infrastructure layer that powers our underwriting model, trained on tens of millions of patients and hundreds of millions of rows of claims data.
  • Make training reliable, reproducible, and scalable as data volume and model complexity grow.


Real-time inference for quoting

  • Build and own the API layer that produces quotes in seconds - serving a trained model against a much larger inference-time dataset, on the order of trillions of rows of claims across hundreds of millions of people.
  • Own the latency, reliability, and scalability of the serving path the quoting product depends on.


Accelerate data science iteration

  • Make it as easy as possible for data scientists and actuaries to test new features and ideas.
  • Build backtesting and validation infrastructure so model performance can be measured quickly and trustworthily.
  • Remove friction from the path between an idea and a validated, production-ready model - make experimentation simpler than it's ever been.


What We're Looking For

  • A strong track record building ML or data infrastructure in production at scale.
  • Deep proficiency in Python, with comfort in processing large datasets (Spark, Databricks, or equivalent).
  • Experience with model training pipelines and/or low-latency model serving in production.
  • Experience building tooling that makes other people faster - feature testing, experiment tracking, backtesting, or similar developer/researcher-facing infrastructure.
  • The ability to own systems end-to-end, set standards, and operate reliable production infrastructure (SLAs, monitoring, on-call).
  • Genuine interest in the modeling itself - you want to occasionally get your hands into the data science, not only the infrastructure.


Nice to Have

  • Prior experience in a regulated space like healthcare or insurance.
  • Experience with MLOps tooling (MLflow or similar), feature stores, or experimentation platforms.
  • Experience supporting data science or actuarial teams in production environments.


Compensation

$180,000 - $230,000 + equity

Why Join Arlo:

  • High ownership: You'll get real responsibility from day one-our high-trust team empowers you to run with big problems and shape core parts of the company.
  • Join an important mission: Your work directly influences how people access care and improves lives at scale.
  • Growth & expansion: We're moving fast, and as we grow, your scope will grow with us-new challenges, bigger opportunities, and rapid career velocity.
  • Apply AI to a problem that matters: Instead of optimizing ads or cutting labor costs, you'll use AI to fundamentally reimagine how people get healthcare.
  • High pace, high collaboration: We operate with velocity, first-principles thinking, and a team that works closely, openly, and with ambition.


Exact compensation inclusive of salary and any bonuses is determined based on a number of factors including experience and skill level, location, and qualifications which are assessed during the interview process.

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