Machine Learning Engineer II (Earth System Science)

Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States; hybrid work with on-site attendance approximately 3 days per week

Salary: $113,470–$141,840 per year

Company

hirify.global is a university corporation focused on atmospheric and Earth system science research.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable machine learning software and systems for complex Earth System Science problems.
• Train, evaluate, deploy, and operate machine learning models using large-scale scientific datasets and high-performance computing resources.
• Build reusable data preparation, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment workflows, tools, libraries, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with scientists, software engineers, and domain experts to translate scientific requirements into maintainable solutions.
• Optimize computational efficiency, memory utilization, I/O, scalability, and GPU utilization.
• Maintain technical documentation, examples, and developer- and user-facing resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree with 4 years of related experience, a master’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency applying machine learning methods and frameworks to model training, technical evaluation, and inference.
• Experience developing reliable, maintainable software using testing, version control, code review, documentation, and reproducibility practices.
• Ability to analyze moderately complex AI/ML models, data, software, and computing problems independently.
• Ability to translate scientific or customer requirements into scoped technical work and communicate trade-offs.
• Work location must comply with U.S. work location requirements; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale datasets and high-performance computing environments.
• Experience developing automated machine learning workflows and reliable scientific software.
• Experience leading small technical teams through the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with continuous integration, testing, version control, documentation, and reproducibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular 2-year term position with full-time employment.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, retirement, and employee assistance benefits.
• hirify.global contributes 10% of base salary to the retirement plan.
• At least 20 days of annual PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Tuition assistance and eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Hiring process

• Submit a questionnaire and resume/CV.
• Background checks and/or federal screenings are conducted for selected candidates.