Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer
$155,000–$180,000 year
Remote · United States or Canada
Job Summary
Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and iterating ML models and agentic workflow features to address real customer needs in insurance-related workflows. Responsibilities include applying ML techniques to improve accuracy and system performance, developing and validating models for submission intake and underwriting decision-making, deploying autonomous agent behaviors into customer-specific workflows, and maintaining evaluation pipelines, monitoring systems, and performance metrics. You will monitor production systems via logs and metrics, diagnose issues, and drive resolution, owning problems end-to-end and collaborating closely with Data Science and Engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions. Required—Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field and 2+ years in production ML roles, hands-on experience with ML/LLM systems, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, cloud deployments, and strong analytics and monitoring capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Mathematics, Operations Research, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field
- 2+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Scientist, or similar role delivering ML solutions in production
- Hands-on experience deploying ML/LLM systems (including agentic workflows and prompt engineering)
- Experience deploying and iterating ML systems in cloud environments with engineering teams
- Strong experience with experimentation, evaluation, and monitoring pipelines (logs/metrics) and debugging
- Experience translating business needs into technical solutions for customers or stakeholders
- Proven ownership—driving issues to resolution in production systems
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