Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Position Summary

Candid is a nonprofit that provides the most comprehensive data and insights about the social sector. We get you the information you need to do good. Candid currently has an opportunity for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. Candid’s Data Science and AI team builds and ships machine learning and AI models across many concurrent projects. The Senior ML Engineer exists to take operational ownership of Candid’s deployed ML and AI services to free up data science capacity. This is primarily an operational ownership role, with a secondary focus on incrementally improving deployment practices, observability, and inference performance as that ownership surfaces the need. The right person is motivated by reliability, ownership, and enabling others to do their best work; brings cost-awareness as a default in a budget-conscious nonprofit; and is energized by building standardized practices. The Senior ML Engineer will work with data scientists and data engineers to deploy services at scale, and collaborate on cross-functional teams to understand product needs.

Position

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Reporting to

Senior Data Science Manager

Supervises

N/A

Schedule

35-hour work week, Monday through Friday

Compensation

: $130,000 - $160,000 (this range is for the NYC area and will be adjusted for other localities; additionally, factors like skills and experience will be considered).

Location

Remote. In-person attendance is expected twice per year during our annual, weeklong all-staff summits. Additional in-person meeting participation is expected at least once per quarter for senior leaders and at least once per month for the executive team. Staff not located in the NYC area are expected to travel for these meetings.

Benefits

: Health insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement contribution with additional option for a match, paid life insurance and AD&D, paid leave time (PTO, compa