Employer: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA)Job Site: 200 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116Job Title: Machine Learning EngineerJob Duties: - Develop, build and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting underwriting, analytics, and machine learning systems;
- Develop and deploy backend services and microservices to support data ingestion, retrieval, and ML inference workflows;
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain machine learning pipelines and backend services in production environments;
- Conduct root-cause analysis of data, model, and pipeline issues and implement corrective solutions;
- Collaborate with data scientists, underwriters, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions; and
- Support production releases and large-scale batch processing of underwriting workflows.
Work Arrangement requirement: Hybrid from Boston office (3 days from office, 2 days from home)
Minimum Requirements:Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Data Science, Information Studies, Information Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field and 3 years of Python programming experience for backend systems, automation, or machine learning workloads.
Experience must include the following, which may be gained concurrently:
- 3 years of experience using SQL or NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL or MongoDB for data modeling, querying, or pipeline integration.
- 3 years of experience developing or deploying machine learning models using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- 3 years of experience building or maintaining backend APIs or microservices using FastAPI or Flask.
- 2 years of experience deploying ML workflows or backend services using AWS or Azure.
- 2 years of experience using containerization and orchestration tools including Docker and Kubernetes.
- 2 years of experience using GitHub Actions or TeamCity for Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
- 2 years of experience designing distributed or scalable systems including microservices, load balancing or distributed processing.
Salary: $162,198 per year
The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
Referenced Salary LocationBoston, Massachusetts
Working ArrangementHybrid
Salary range is expected to be between$90,160.00 USD - $167,440.00 USD
Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [redacted] for the salary range for your location.
Manulife/John Hancock offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.
