Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Latin America Posted on March 1, 2026

Job Description

Senior Machine Learning Engineer
phData

Machine Learning Engineers are the Swiss army knives of machine learning. They’re ready for anything, and they bring all the tools to ensure that data science models see the light of day. They own the infrastructure and deployment plan—from making sure data science models can actually be built using customer data to deploying them into a production environment, and everything in between.  They provide thought leadership by recommending the right technologies and solutions for a given use case, from the application layer to infrastructure.  Machine Learning Engineers have the team leadership and coding skills (e.g. Python, Java, and Scala) to get their solutions into production — and to help ensure performance, security, scalability, and robust data integration.

What you’ll do in this role:

Design and create environments for data scientists to build models and manipulate data

Work within customer systems to extract data and place it within an analytical environment

Learn and understand customer technology environments and systems

Define the deployment approach and infrastructure for models and be responsible for ensuring that businesses can use the models we develop

Reveal the true value of data by working with data scientists to manipulate and transform data into appropriate formats in order to deploy actionable machine learning models

Partner with data scientists to ensure solution deployability—at scale, in harmony with existing business systems and pipelines, and such that the solution can be maintained throughout its life cycle

Create operational testing strategies, validate and test the model in QA, and implementation, testing, and deployment

Ensure the quality of the delivered product

Required Experience:

At least 4 years experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, or Data Engineer

4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field

Experience deploying data science models in a production setting.

Expertise in Python, Scala, Java, or another modern programming language

The ability to build and operate robust data pipelines using a variety of data sources,  programming languages, and toolsets

Strong working knowledge of SQL and the ability to write, debug, and optimize distributed SQL queries

Experience working with Data Science/Machine Learning software and libraries such as h2o, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, etc. 

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or some other containerization technology

Familiarity with multiple data source systems (e.g. JMS, Kafka, RDBMS, DWH, MySQL, Oracle, SAP)

Systems-level knowledge in network/cloud architecture, operating systems (e.g., Linux), storage systems (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Cloudera)

Production experience in core data technologies (e.g. Spark, Pandas)

Development of APIs and web server applications (e.g. Flask, Django, Spring)

Complete software development lifecycle experience including design, documentation, ong analytical abilities; ability to translate business requirements and use cases into a solution, including ingestion of many data sources, ETL processing, data access, and consumption, as well as custom analytics

Excellent communication and presentation skills; previous experience working with internal or external customers

Preferred Experience 

A Master’s or other advanced degree in data science or a related field

Hands-on experience with one or more ecosystem technologies (e.g., HBase, Impala, Solr, Kudu, Streamsets, NiFi, ElasticSearch, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS/Azure/GCP)

Relevant side projects (e.g. contributions to an open source technology stack)

AWS Sagemaker, MLFlow experience

 Why phData? We offer:

Remote-First Work Environment 

Casual, award-winning small-business work environment

Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency

Competitive comp, excellent benefits, generous PTO plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)

Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications

About phData

phData is the leading AI and data services company. We specialize in AI and data applications, from conception to production. Our global delivery team partners with the world's top brands to execute data initiatives in artificial intelligence, data engineering, applications, analytics, and managed services for cloud platforms.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting