Senior Engineer, MLOps

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Royal Caribbean Group’s AI & Analytics Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Engineer, MLOps reporting to the Manager, ML Engineering.

This full-time position is located in Miami, Florida.

Position Summary

The ML Engineering team at Royal Caribbean Group is responsible for architecting the productionalized solution around rules-based and AI/ML models to integrate predictions seamlessly into the business processes, ensuring governance, resiliency, explainability, reproducibility, and scalability of the models. We are looking for a highly capable ML Platform Engineer to optimize rules-based and machine learning systems. As an engineer for the ML platform, you will be working at the intersection of machine learning, DevOps, and data engineering (i.e. MLOps). 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and consult with business stakeholders and data science teams to define data engineering and MLOps requirements.
• Transforming business and data science prototypes and applying appropriate algorithms and tools.
• Solving complex problems with multi-layered data sets, as well as optimizing existing machine learning libraries and frameworks.
• Developing reusable data and feature stores for rules-based and AI/ML models.
• Developing alerting tool frameworks for monitoring productionized model performance and effectiveness.
• Automate deployments incorporating MLOps best practices into productionalized solutions.
• Document frameworks and machine-learning processes.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of overall experience in Data Analytics.
• 2+ years of experience with ML Engineering and/or ML Ops.
• Experience building scalable machine learning systems and data-driven products working with cross-functional teams.
• Well-developed software engineering fundamentals, including use of proper development, QA, and production environments, and the ability to write production-level code when needed.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with common data analytics packages (e.g. Numpy, Pandas, Sklearn, PySpark).
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Good communication skills and the ability to understand and synthesize requirements across multiple project domains.
• Works effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills

• Masters or PhD degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience with Agile Software Development.
• Experience in a large corporation or consulting firm with focus in marketing strategies, modeling, CRM and management sciences/statistics highly desired.
• Familiarity with frameworks and languages designed for big-data analytics, including Spark and Azure Data Factory.
• Experience with MLOps and ML experiment tracking tools, such as Azure DevOps and MLFlow or similar.
• Experience with cloud computing frameworks or APIs, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with different data science techniques: statistics, machine learning, or cognitive AI.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

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