Career Category
Engineering
Job Description
Position Overview
The GCF5 Sr Machine Learning Engineer is the senior technical leader for the Agentic & ML Platform pillar. They define and socialize platform standards and patterns, lead multi-team delivery, mentor GCF4 engineers, and translate scientific needs into scalable ML/agentic platform designs. They own pillar-level adoption, reliability, and SLA/SLO outcomes, and influence cross-team engineering quality.
This role reports to the GCF7 leader and partners closely with peer GCF5 domain leads across SCIP to ensure cohesive, scalable platform evolution.
Core Responsibilities
- Own the ML and agentic platform technical roadmap within SCIP.
- Design and operationalize reusable ML/agentic infrastructure components enabling repeatable deployment.
- Define evaluation harnesses and model release gates.
- Establish monitoring, rollback, and observability practices for production ML systems.
- Implement guardrails and operational controls for safe agentic workflows.
- Define reproducibility standards and artifact versioning practices.
- Lead architecture reviews for ML platform evolution.
- Mentor engineers and elevate ML engineering rigor.
- Partner with research stakeholders to translate AI use cases into scalable platform capabilities.
Core Competencies
- Deep expertise in the assigned pillar (Agentic & ML Platform) (Agentic‑ML) with evidence of standard‑setting and reuse.
- Systems design at scale (ML); performance, security, and observability fundamentals.
- Product/engineering thinking: road mapping, prioritization, and outcome‑oriented delivery.
- Stakeholder influence across science, engineering, and governance forums; crisp written/verbal communication.
Core Success Measures
- Adoption rate of standardized ML platform components.
- Evaluation coverage across supported ML use cases.
- Reduction in model regressions and production ML incidents.
- Time-to-deploy new ML use cases.
- Reproducibility rate of experiments and deployments.
- Reduction in safe-use escalations.
Key Relationships
- Collaborates with GCF6 Group Lead and cross‑functional leaders (R&D/PD/Dev).
