Job Title: Staff ML Engineer

About the Role

We're hiring a Staff ML Engineer to build and deploy production-grade machine learning systems that reshape decision-making in the title insurance and real estate sectors. You'll own the development of robust, scalable ML products that power risk assessment, streamline underwriting, and improve operational efficiency. This role blends deep technical execution with cross-functional collaboration and offers a unique opportunity to apply advanced ML techniques in a highly regulated, high-impact domain.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ML systems across the full model lifecycle-from data ingestion and training to deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Serve as a go-to expert in title risk and underwriting for our team and the company. This includes exploring ways to reduce model losses, improve the fidelity of our projected losses, and identify new risks in our domain.
• Collaborate with data engineers, product teams, and domain experts to translate business goals into ML solutions that perform in real-world production environments.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses and experimentation to inform modeling decisions and stakeholder strategy.

Who You Are

• An Owner: You drive work forward with minimal oversight and proactively address challenges.
• Curious: You continuously learn and seek to improve tools, systems, and outcomes-especially in AI and engineering domains.
• Clear Communicator: You can explain technical decisions and concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Product Oriented: You care about measurable impact and shipping reliable, real-world solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years developing and deploying models in a cloud-based production environment following MLOps and engineering best practices, with proficiency in Python, SQL, Git, and Docker
• Depth in supervised learning on tabular data - feature engineering, class imbalance, label definition, and threshold selection with the business tradeoffs behind it.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating models in production over time - tracking degradation, drift, and error rates, and turning that into a defensible account of what changed and why
• Strong applied statistics. You can decompose a metric change into its drivers and defend the decomposition.
• You're the reviewer, not the reviewed. You look for the reason a number might be wrong before a client's reviewer does, and you have a track record of catching problems in other people's analyses and raising the bar around you.
• Fluent with current AI tooling in your own work You already heavily use LLM-based coding and analysis tools, you have opinions about where they help and where they fail, and you keep up with what's changing. We're not looking to persuade anyone that these tools are worth using.
• Track record of owning complex, ambiguous projects end to end and working directly with product and senior leadership - including pushing back on requirements when they're wrong

Shown below is the lowest to highest base salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the base salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. At Doma, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

This job is also eligible for the following compensation components: Bonus & Equity

The base salary range for this role is shown below:

$165,200-$236,300 USD

How we'll value you and make your life a bit easier:

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees (FTE, non-contract): medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

We currently offer the following benefits to all Full-Time employees:

• Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)!
• 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity)
• Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family's needs that all start in the following month following your first day of employment
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with company match program
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance