Machine Learning Engineer

Salary range: $72k – $96k

Equity range: 0.005% – 0.025%

What we are looking for:

Kalepa is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer with 3 + years of experience to lead the framing development and deployment at the scale of machine learning models. As a Machine Learning Engineer you will lead the framing development and deployment at scale of machine learning models to understand the risk of various classes of businesses. You will be turning vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from many sources (web data geolocation satellite imaging etc.) into novel insights about behavior and risk.

Team members are given full ownership over their projects and are expected to drive the project’s direction and maintain focus. The team works in a two-week sprint and ML Engineers will work closely with Product Management and Software Engineers.

About you:

• You must have 3+ years of experience in engineering and data science.

• You love to hustle: finding ways to get things done destroying obstacles and never taking no for an answer. The words “it can’t be done” don’t exist in your vocabulary.

• You have in-depth understanding of applied machine learning algorithms especially NLP and statistics

• You are experienced in Python and its major data science libraries and have deployed models and algorithms in production

• You are comfortable with data science as well as with the engineering required to bring your models to production.

• You are excited about using a wide set of technologies ultimately focused on finding the right tool for the job.

• You value open frank and respectful communication.

As a plus:

• You have experience with AWS

• You have hands-on experience with data analytics and data engineering.

What you’ll get:

• Competitive salary (based on experience level).

• Significant equity options package.

• Work with an ambitious smart global and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.

• Ground floor opportunity – early member of Kalepa’s data science team.

• 20 days of PTO a year.

• Global team offsites.

Kalepa's team members bring experience from top technology including Facebook Google Amazon Mastercard and Uber. Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures (early investors in Datadog Wise Better Digital Ocean TheTradeDesk Flatiron Health Komodo Health etc.); former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker’s Inspired Capital; and leaders in financial services and technology including Gokul Rajaram from Doordash Coinbase and Square Jackie Reses from Square Affirm and Alibaba and Henry Ward from Carta.