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Space-Eyes

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Space-Eyes, Miami, Florida, us, 33222

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Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

to lead our growing ML team. In this role, you will oversee a team of junior ML developers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and project leadership. You will design and deploy scalable ML systems within our

AWS cloud infrastructure , ensuring reliability, performance, and alignment with business objectives. This is both a

hands-on and leadership position —you’ll balance coding, architecture design, and reviews with team management and cross-department collaboration. Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of junior ML developers, providing technical direction, code reviews, and professional growth guidance. Architect, build, and deploy

end-to-end ML pipelines

on AWS using services such as SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, and ECS/EKS. Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to identify opportunities for ML-driven solutions. Oversee model lifecycle management: data preprocessing, feature engineering, training, testing, deployment, and monitoring. Establish and enforce

best practices

for ML development, MLOps, and reproducible research. Manage

infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation)

for scalable ML environments. Implement monitoring, observability, and automated retraining processes for production ML models. Optimize cloud costs while ensuring model performance and scalability. Stay current with emerging ML tools, frameworks, and AWS offerings; evaluate and introduce them to the team when valuable. Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field. 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership/mentorship role. Strong hands-on experience with

AWS ML ecosystem

(SageMaker, Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3, EC2, Step Functions, etc.). Proficiency with

Python

and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost). Experience with

MLOps practices , CI/CD for ML, and ML pipeline orchestration (Kubeflow, MLflow, Airflow). Solid understanding of

cloud infrastructure and containerization

(Docker, EKS/ECS, Kubernetes). Strong knowledge of

data engineering practices , including ETL, data lakes, and data warehouses. Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills. Nice to Have

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect certification. Experience with

real-time inference systems

and large-scale ML deployments. Background in NLP, computer vision, or time-series forecasting. Prior experience scaling a junior team into a mid-level/high-performing ML group. Seniority level

Mid-Senior level Employment type

Full-time Job function

Engineering and Information Technology Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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