[Hiring] Staff Machine Learning Engineer @Tilt Finance

Role Description

ML is core to what Tilt does: our models make credit decisions for millions of customers across multiple markets, and they run on a platform shared by several business units. You’ll own the layer between data science and infrastructure. Half your time goes to running our managed feature store, and the other half to building the training and deployment platforms that let data scientists ship without an engineer in the loop.

The foundation is in place: a feature store, standard pipelines and an automated deployment framework. The team is now moving quickly into deep learning and streaming models. You’ll own the platform layer that sits between data science and infrastructure, and your measure of success is how much faster and more independently data scientists can move because you built it. You’ll thrive here if you go find the pain points yourself, turn them into platform work, and stay with each project until data scientists are actually using it.

Tilt is remote-first. We come together in person at least twice a year for company offsites — and those gatherings are worth the trip.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Run our managed feature store: build the patterns and tooling for defining, backfilling, and serving features so a new model can be trained from existing features and deployed.
• Make the feature store the starting point for model training, not just deployment, so new models are trained on existing features instead of rebuilt pipelines.
• Build and improve our automated training and deployment platforms. Our ML engineers own frameworks, not individual models.
• Turn the steps data scientists repeat (registering features, launching training jobs, promoting a model, setting up monitoring) into self-service agents and skills they run themselves.
• Standardize training and retraining so refits are schedulable, reproducible and backed by feature store data rather than one-off queries.
• Scale batch scoring and low-latency online inference, with autoscaling, resource isolation and cost controls that hold up as the number of models grows.
• Extend monitoring for data drift, feature drift, prediction quality and serving health, with alerts and dashboards data scientists use without escalating to engineering.
• Define standards for model and feature versioning, lineage, testing and documentation, and lead their adoption across data science teams.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience as a platform or software engineer working in ML, with a track record of platforms that served many models in production across multiple teams.
• Experience with feature stores and model deployment platforms, such as Databricks Feature Store, Feast, Tecton or equivalent. Time on a managed feature store is especially relevant.
• Strong CI/CD for ML (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines or similar), model registries, and infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Cloud expertise in AWS or Azure for ML deployment, plus Kubernetes, workflow orchestration, and a strong command of batch and real-time serving, autoscaling, and latency and cost trade-offs.
• You’ve removed engineers from the deployment loop with self-service tooling that data scientists actually adopted, and you’ve worked side by side with backend engineers to get deployments live instead of handing models off.
• You work well with ambiguity: you gather requirements from stakeholders without being directed, propose solutions and drive projects to completion.
• Enough depth in model development and common algorithms to be a real technical partner to data scientists. Familiarity with PySpark, Databricks and monitoring tools such as Evidently AI is a plus.

Requirements

• Initial Recruiter Call: A conversation to learn about your experience and what you’re looking for in your next role.
• Hiring Manager Interview: A deeper discussion about your experience.
• Skills Panel: Meet with Tilt team members to discuss your expertise and problem-solving approach.
• Leadership Conversation: A final conversation with a leader to discuss how you’ll contribute to Tilt’s mission, and how we can help you achieve your career goals along the way.

Benefits

• Virtual-first teamwork: The Tilt team is collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones, and counting. You’ll get started with a WFH office reimbursement.
• Competitive pay: We're big on potential, and it's reflected in our competitive compensation packages and generous equity.
• Complete support: Find flexible health plans at every premium level, and substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards.
• Visibility is yours: You can count on direct exposure to our leadership team — we’re a team where good ideas travel quickly.
• Paid global onsites: Magic happens IRL: we gather twice yearly to reconnect over shared meals or kayaking adventures. (We’ve visited Vail, San Diego, and Mexico City, to name a few.)
• Impact is recognized: Growth opportunities follow your contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.

The Tilt Way

We're looking for people who chase excellence and impact. Those who stand behind their work, celebrating the wins and learning from the missteps equally. We foster an environment where every voice is valued and mutual respect is non-negotiable — brilliant jerks need not apply. We're in this together, working to expand access to fair credit and prove that people are incredible. When you join us, it's not just another day at the [virtual] office, you're helping millions of hardworking people reach better financial futures.

You’re pushing ahead in your career? We can get behind that. Join us in building the credit system that people deserve.