Staff ML Systems Engineer

Staff ML Systems Engineer in the USA

Quilter is seeking a remote-based Staff ML Systems Engineer to join their Placer Team in the IT field. In this senior-level role, you will build the infrastructure that moves machine learning research from prototype to production reliably and efficiently, focusing on automated component placement on printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Core Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ML infrastructure across training, evaluation, serving, and monitoring.
• Own data pipelines including generation, cleaning, validation, and versioning.
• Build and improve experiment tracking, orchestration, and reproducibility tooling.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and A/B testing infrastructure.
• Lead design reviews, identify architectural risks early, and guide long-range planning.

Candidate Requirements

Applicants must hold a Bachelor's degree and bring 7+ years of industry experience building and operating production-grade ML systems. You should possess strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with GPU-accelerated workloads and orchestration, and the ability to operate with high autonomy in a fully distributed team environment. Familiarity with optimization, reinforcement learning, or combinatorial problems is preferred.

Compensation and Benefits

This position offers a market competitive salary and equity benefits, health, dental, and vision insurance, unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, and regular team events and offsites approximately four times a year. Quilter is focused on hiring primarily within the USA.