Senior Machine Learning Engineer
DraftKings Inc. · Boston, MA · 5 days ago
EngineeringFull-time
About the role
The Crown Is Yours As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll design, build, and maintain ETL and feature engineering pipelines that power risk and payment applications.
Responsibilities
- Develop production ML systems, from training and evaluation through deployment and monitoring.
- Partner with data scientists to productionize models that integrate into DK’s decisioning systems.
- Build reliable, well-tested data workflows — from SQL-based feature transformations through model training and deployment.
- Establish observability and monitoring for data quality, model drift, and service reliability.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and incident response, helping to maintain strong engineering practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to shared tooling, documentation, and process improvements across the DS organization.
- Support on-call rotations and post-incident reviews to ensure continuous system improvement.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience writing production Python applications and working with structured data (SQL and data modeling).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — object-oriented design, testing, and version control.
- Familiarity with ML Ops frameworks such as model registry, orchestrations, and feature stores.
- Experience building or maintaining data and feature pipelines in a data-heavy environment.
- Understanding of the ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, training, and model serving.
- Ability to debug production issues across data, model, and infrastructure layers.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to translate technical solutions into operational outcomes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (Master’s preferred).
Skills
- Production Python applications
- Data modeling
- ML Ops frameworks
- Data and feature pipelines
- ML lifecycle
- Debugging production issues
- Collaboration and communication
Benefits
- Base salary range: $134,400.00 USD - $168,000.00 USD
- Plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable
Pay
- US base salary range for this full-time position is $134,400.00 USD - $168,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
Schedule
- Full-time