Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Upgrade | Powderkeg

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: Full-Time

Team: Software Development

Upgrade is a fintech unicorn founded in 2017. We are the fastest-growing company in the Americas (Financial Times). Our innovative Upgrade Card is the fastest-growing credit card in America (Nilson Report). Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” and received “Best Engineering Team", "Best Company for Women” and “Best Company for Diversity” awards from Comparably. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

At Upgrade, the Platform team works horizontally with our different engineering teams. We build tools, services and shared libraries to simplify / abstract / speedup the day to day of our developers.

Part of the Platform group, the ML team is responsible for our ML initiatives, training and inference services. We work with our decision science team to build and ship models used in our different products.

We are looking for a passionate Machine Learning engineer to help us drive the ML roadmap at Upgrade. Join us!

What You'll Do:

  • Implement new ML training and inference services.
  • Help build and drive the roadmap for the ML team.
  • Augment our model monitoring capabilities.
  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Machine learning

What We Look For: (Please apply if you only have a few in there!)

  • Python Programming.
  • You worked on ML teams before.
  • You built pipelines on a cloud provider solution (Kubeflow, AWS SageMaker, Azure Machine learning, Google AutoML, etc.).
  • Experience with ML Libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, Scikit-learn).
  • Experience with CI-CD Pipelines.
  • Good observability knowledge.
  • Kubernetes (nice to have).
  • Good communication & empathy skills. You will interact with different stakeholders at Upgrade to help define our vision.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

What We Offer You:

  • Competitive salary and stock option plan.
  • 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • 401(k) company match program.
  • Learning stipend for personal growth and development.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Health and wellness initiatives.

Interested in joining Upgrade but don't think this role is for you? Check out our careers page!

Interested in joining Upgrade but don't think this role is for you? Check out our careers page!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Principal Machine Learning Engineer
  • Company
    Upgrade
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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