Senior Staff ML Engineer (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Annual salary: $150,000–$300,000

Company

hirify.global is a large United States auto insurer and a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family, using artificial intelligence to transform insurance and protect customers from fraud.

What you will do

• Architect scalable, high-performance machine learning platforms and real-time decisioning systems for large data volumes.
• Design end-to-end AIML pipelines covering ingestion, feature engineering, training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Set technical direction across multiple ML feature teams and provide hands-on guidance through design reviews, code assessments, and performance tuning.
• Prototype advanced ML algorithms and integrate current AIML frameworks into production solutions.
• Partner with data scientists, software engineers, operations, and product teams to integrate ML systems into production.
• Ensure model reliability, security, interpretability, fairness, and regulatory compliance throughout the ML lifecycle.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant hands-on experience designing, implementing, and optimizing production AIML systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in machine learning, computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field.
• Expertise in large-scale data pipelines, real-time AIML serving architectures, and complete ML lifecycle management.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience with distributed systems and tools including Airflow, DBT, Kubernetes, Spark, MongoDB, Snowflake, Neo4j, or Redis.
• Experience with cloud platforms and ML services such as AWS, Azure, SageMaker, or Azure ML, plus TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.

Nice to have

• Experience in fraud detection, risk modeling, trust and safety, or digital identity.
• Production experience with LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, or graph neural networks.
• Experience with model governance, explainability, and bias mitigation in regulated industries.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on shared success.
• Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility supporting employee well-being.
• hirify.global will consider sponsoring a qualified new applicant for employment authorization.