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Junior ML Engineer
Luca Ferretti
Full-time · Junior · Chicago
About the role
We're a five-person team building an AI-powered resume screening tool used by real HR teams at mid-sized companies. The stack is Python, Scikit-learn, and PyTorch. The problems are real: noisy labels, class imbalance, and a model that needs to stay explainable enough that HR managers actually trust it. We need a junior ML engineer — not someone pretending to be mid-level, but someone genuinely early in their career who wants to learn fast and build things that ship. Our senior engineer will pair program with you every day for the first three months. If you have a Kaggle project, a university capstone, or a side project you actually finished, that tells us more than two years of copying Jupyter notebooks at a big company.
Responsibilities
- Build and test classification models for resume scoring under senior guidance
- Clean and preprocess text and structured data from multiple HR system formats
- Write unit tests and inline documentation for every feature you ship
- Participate in weekly sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Progressively own your own feature branches as confidence grows
Requirements
- Solid Python — you write clean, readable code without being told to
- At least one ML library hands-on: Scikit-learn, PyTorch, or equivalent
- Understanding of supervised learning basics: classification, evaluation metrics, overfitting
- Familiarity with Pandas and NumPy for data wrangling
- Able to read documentation, debug independently, and ask clear questions when stuck
- Personal project, university capstone, or bootcamp portfolio is welcome
Benefits
- Daily pair programming — you will actually level up, fast
- Fully remote, async-first culture with flexible hours
- $52,000 – $68,000 base salary + small equity grant
- $600 annual learning budget (books, courses, conferences)
- No performance reviews for the first year — just growth conversations
Job Type
Full-time
Level
Junior
Language
English
Salary Range
$52,000 – $68,000
AI Expertise
AI & Machine Learning Engineers
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