Machine Learning Engineer

Key Responsibilities: Turn Renaissance Technologies's Scikit-learn on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something Drive the LightGBM incident postmortem that stops the Evanston outage from recurring Catch the Computer Vision race conditions that only surface under Evanston peak traffic Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Snowflake Reverse-engineer the fast-growing Accountability format Renaissance Technologies inherited and never documented What You'll Bring Familiarity with LangChain and related tools or frameworks A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork At least 1 years of standing behind your own estimates Hands-on experience with modern R workflows and tooling Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives Working understanding of both R and Emotional Intelligence in real-world settings Renaissance Technologies builds technology tools the way old shops built furniture — slowly, in Evanston, IL, and with a no-ego respect for the craft. Here, ownership means you're empowered to fix what's broken without waiting for permission. Expect a $68,000 - $95,000 base, a growth path with milestones, a mentor who shows up, and benefits that make staying at Renaissance Technologies easy. Current and accurate as of this visit, the temporary opening stands ready.