Senior Machine Learning Engineer Jobs

Explore Senior Machine Learning Engineer opportunities at companies building intelligent products and data-driven systems. These experienced professionals design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions, turning research and business needs into reliable applications. Ladders features vetted professional jobs paying $100,000 or more, helping you find roles aligned with your skills and career goals.

What Senior Machine Learning Engineers Do

Senior Machine Learning Engineers typically own substantial parts of the machine learning lifecycle, from defining problems and preparing data to training models, deploying services, and monitoring performance. They collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that are accurate, scalable, maintainable, and useful.

Common Skills and Qualifications

Employers often seek strong programming skills, especially in Python, along with experience in machine learning frameworks, statistical methods, and software engineering practices. Familiarity with cloud platforms, distributed computing, MLOps, model evaluation, and production deployment can be valuable. Senior roles may also call for technical leadership, mentoring, and the ability to explain complex findings to cross-functional teams.

Career Opportunities

Senior Machine Learning Engineers work across industries such as technology, finance, healthcare, retail, and logistics. Depending on the organization, the role may focus on generative AI, recommendation systems, search, computer vision, natural language processing, forecasting, or fraud detection. Experienced engineers can grow into staff or principal engineering roles, technical management, or specialized AI leadership positions.

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$189K - $389K *

Pioneer advancements in machine learning by leading complex model development and optimizing real-time content ranking systems. Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance ML infrastructure and drive in...

Yesterday

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Consumer Technology

$189K - $389K *

Innovate cutting-edge ML models and systems for content ranking. Lead technical initiatives, enhance ML infrastructure, and collaborate across teams to drive impactful growth in real-time user experie...

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Yesterday

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Consumer Technology

$216K - $322K *

Shape the future of AI by leading ML projects from concept to production, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance recommendations, search, and messaging systems while driving measurable u...

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1 week ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Media

$160K - $190K *

Lead the development of innovative AI/ML solutions, collaborating with executives to create impactful products that enhance user experiences and drive sales team engagement. Mentor a growing engineeri...

2 weeks ago

  •   5 - 7 years exp.  •   Enterprise Technology

$150K - $180K *

Empower the future of AI by building and scaling distributed training infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance efficiency and reliability for large-scale AI models. Join a fa...

Reposted 3 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Staffing

$130K - $160K *

Elevate your career by building and deploying ML and GenAI components for asset onboarding and diagnostics, enhancing automation and intelligent solutions in a dynamic, collaborative environment...

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4 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$150K - $180K *

Innovate within a pioneering team to design and train large-scale generative models using multimodal neural data. This role focuses on architecture, training, and representation learning to model biol...

4 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$135K - $160K *

Help us enhance our inference software stack on-device and in the cloud. You'll integrate inference engines, optimize models for varied CPU/GPU targets, and improve our open-source projects while coll...

Reposted 3 weeks ago

  •   5 - 7 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$135K - $160K *

Advance your career by developing cutting-edge video understanding systems. Collaborate with a dynamic team to transform unstructured video data into actionable insights, enhancing the scalability and...

2 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$193K - $261K *

Explore opportunities in functional modeling and software development for custom SoCs, driving innovation in machine learning accelerators, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and enhancing mod...

Reposted 3 weeks ago

  •   5 - 7 years exp.  •   Retail & Consumer Goods

$183K - $244K *

Drive the technical vision for ML data and training platforms, leading initiatives across teams to enhance architecture, scalability, and reproducibility of machine learning models while mentoring eng...

Today

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Finance & Insurance

$250K - $295K *

Pioneer the future of global trade by leading AI-driven systems that transform vast trade data into real-time compliance and risk decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and enh...

1 week ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$250K - $295K *

Lead the charge in developing cutting-edge AI systems for global trade, transforming vast data into real-time compliance and risk decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and enh...

1 week ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$250K - $295K *

Join a team that's redefining global trade through AI. Lead the development of advanced machine learning systems that transform trade data into real-time compliance and risk decisions, driving innovat...

1 week ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$250K - $295K *

Transform global trade with cutting-edge AI solutions. Lead the development of agentic systems that process trade data, ensuring real-time compliance and risk decisions for governments and major corpo...

1 week ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$184K - $356K *

Drive innovation by developing and optimizing machine learning models for LiDAR and camera perception, ensuring seamless integration into autonomous driving solutions while collaborating with cross-fu...

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Reposted 2 weeks ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Manufacturing & Automotive

$184K - $356K *

Drive innovation by developing and optimizing machine learning models for LiDAR and camera perception, ensuring seamless integration into autonomous driving solutions while collaborating with cross-fu...

Reposted 2 weeks ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Manufacturing & Automotive

$160K - $190K *

Unlock potential by developing robust backend solutions for AI and ML applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software, ensuring seamless integration and performa...

4 days ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Enterprise Technology

$125K - $180K *

Optimize AI-driven insights by developing and deploying advanced ML models. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences through innovative solutions in NLP and generative AI, e...

1 week ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Finance & Insurance

$130K - $160K *

Transform human motion capture by developing advanced 3D pose estimation models from egocentric video. Collaborate across the full stack to enhance robot learning through accurate, real-time data proc...

2 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Information Technology

$254K - $350K *

The Staff Software Engineer, ML Performance Optimization at Zoox will lead initiatives to enhance the performance of ML Training and Inference platforms for autonomous driving. This role involves coll...

Reposted 1 week ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Manufacturing & Automotive

$153K - $183K *

Pioneer machine learning systems for autonomous trucks, developing and deploying behavior models to enhance decision-making. Collaborate across teams to create robust, safe, and efficient driving solu...

4 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Enterprise Technology

$110K - $130K *

Drive innovation by developing cutting-edge CV/ML pipelines for 3D object extraction. Collaborate with customers to enhance AI-enabled CAD systems, ensuring seamless integration and continuous improve...

3 weeks ago

  •   Less than 5 years exp.  •   Enterprise Technology

$150K - $180K *

Champion the development of ethical AI and data governance solutions, leading a team to architect scalable systems that ensure compliance and security throughout the AI lifecycle while navigating comp...

1 week ago

  •   8 - 10 years exp.  •   Enterprise Technology

$193K - $261K *

Help us shape the future of machine learning by developing SoC functional models, collaborating across teams, innovating tools, and enhancing modeling infrastructure to meet the growing demands of our...

Reposted 3 weeks ago

  •   5 - 7 years exp.  •   Retail & Consumer Goods

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  • What does a Senior Machine Learning Engineer do?question toggle

    A Senior Machine Learning Engineer builds and operates machine learning systems, including preparing data, developing and evaluating models, deploying them into production, and monitoring their performance. They often guide technical decisions and collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams.

  • What qualifications are commonly required for Senior Machine Learning Engineer jobs?question toggle

    Requirements vary, but commonly include strong programming ability, machine learning and statistical knowledge, experience with production software, and familiarity with tools or frameworks used to train and deploy models. Senior positions may also require cloud, MLOps, system design, and mentorship experience.

  • What industries hire Senior Machine Learning Engineers?question toggle

    Technology, finance, healthcare, retail, logistics, and many other sectors hire Senior Machine Learning Engineers to develop applications such as recommendations, fraud detection, forecasting, language technologies, and computer vision.

  • How can I find Senior Machine Learning Engineer jobs paying $100,000 or more?question toggle

    Use Ladders to explore vetted professional openings with salaries of $100,000 or more. Review each listing's responsibilities, qualifications, and compensation details to find roles that fit your background and goals.