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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

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