Machine Learning Platform Engineer

Machine Learning Platform Engineer PrizePicks - 4.0 Boston, MA Job Details Full-time $135,000 - $160,000 a year 4 hours ago Benefits Paid parental leave Disability insurance Health insurance Dental insurance Paid time off Parental leave Vision insurance 401(k) matching Qualifications AI models Containerization systems Software engineering Go Incident management Software coding Application deployment AI platforms (beyond public GPTs) Scalable systems Production systems Machine learning cloud services Data caching Machine intelligence Model deployment Incident response (Crisis management methodologies) Systems engineering Scalability In-memory caching Model training Machine learning (ML) fundamentals Real-time data processing implementation Machine learning frameworks Python MLOps Full Job Description At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together? As a ML Platform Engineer, you will contribute to building the ML platform at Prizepicks to scale and productionize our core machine learning capabilities. Your work will directly impact key metrics like Time-to-Bet, Deposit Velocity, and Platform Integrity by integrating robust, low-latency ML models across our sports betting and daily fantasy ecosystems. What you'll do:

Build Scalable ML Systems:

Design and build the end-to-end machine learning infrastructure, setup platform for transitioning experimental Data Science models into robust, high-availability production services. Real-Time Inference at

Scale:

Build automation for deploying low-latency services to serve model inferences in milliseconds. You will power real-time decisions across the platform, from dynamic oddsmaking and risk analysis to smart deposit defaults.

Feature Engineering & Data Strategy:

You will lead the creation and optimization of a centralized feature store required to train complex models across diverse business domains.

End-to-End MLOps:

You will work with the Infrastructure team to build and operate core ML platform components for training and experimentation enablement considering developer experience. You will champion best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD for ML. You will implement automated retraining pipelines and observability for ML systems to ensure data drift and model degradation are caught and addressed instantly.

What you have:

3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, with a proven track record of deploying and maintaining a scalable ML platform in high-traffic production environments. 1+ years of experience owning ML systems end-to-end in production, including on-call and incident response. Experience with Real-Time Data , proficient in streaming architectures (Kafka/Flink/PubSub) and building low-latency services to serve model inference in