Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Lifetime Value

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Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Root enhancing customer lifetime value modeling systems using machine learning. Collaborating with data scientists and business teams to optimize ML systems for insurance solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and improve the systems that power customer lifetime value modeling, from development and deployment through monitoring and production support.
  • Partner with data scientists to productionize statistical models, simulations, and forecasting workflows that support decision-making across the business.
  • Accelerate the path from research to production through scalable infrastructure, reliable workflows, and reusable tooling.
  • Improve the ML development experience by building better operational patterns and advancing production-ready ML practices.
  • Develop tools and services that help stakeholders evaluate model performance, understand business impact, and trust model outputs in production.
  • Collaborate with technical and business partners to solve high-value problems and improve the reliability and scalability of ML systems.
  • Share best practices through mentorship, documentation, and clear communication around technical decisions, tradeoffs, and operational considerations.

Requirements:

  • BS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining machine learning systems and ML model pipelines in partnership with data scientists.
  • Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals, with the ability to build maintainable ML systems and production-quality code.
  • Experience building and operating production ML systems, including deployment, monitoring, debugging, and workflow orchestration.
  • Ability to design reproducible systems with clear lineage, versioning, and operational visibility across complex ML workflows.
  • Comfort working in ML systems with interconnected components, simulation-driven logic, and embedded business rules.
  • Strong judgment around model evaluation, code quality, system reliability, and maintainable engineering tradeoffs.
  • Experience with cloud-based ML infrastructure and data platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits:

  • Eligible for Competitive Bonus & Equity Offering