Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Generative AI)
kilwaChicago (IL)
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Generative AI)
Posted today
kilwaChicago (IL)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Own the model layer behind ISI, METI and Zawadi — the hybrid ensemble that turns multilingual, data-scarce market inputs into scores institutions will act on.
Location Chicago or remote (US)
Type Full-time
Team Engineering
What you'll do:
Design, train and productionise the hybrid model stack behind the ISI and METI signals.
Build the retrieval and generation layer for Zawadi so every answer traces back to a scored input.
Own the explainability surface — SHAP attribution, model cards, and the invalidation conditions we publish.
Set the evaluation bar: backtesting, drift detection, and the robustness tests that appear in report appendices.
What you bringProduction ML at depth, with real ownership of a model that people made decisions on.
Fluency across gradient boosting, sequence models and transformer-based NLP — and judgement about when each is the wrong tool.
A bias toward published, interrogable methodology over unexplained accuracy.
Before you apply
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A number in mind
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Your notice period
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