Descartes Labs
Santa Fe, NM
51-200 employees
Enabling commercial and government organizations to harness the power of geospatial analytics to better understand their relationship with the physical world.
Prior Listings
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer
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The Company:
Descartes Labs is a geospatial intelligence company with science and technology at its core. Launching out of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014, we build models of the earth to power the analysis of the world's largest physical systems. Our data science and software solutions create new sources of operational advantage for Agriculture, Consumer Packaged Goods, Mining, and Government. Descartes Labs is proud to be a remote-first, deliberately distributed organization that recognizes that people have different needs and motivations for building a life and career that matters and works for them. For this reason, we are open to our employees working from any location, in a way that enhances their well-being, productivity, and role. We focus on helping our employees produce positive outcomes and we recognize that the path to getting there will look different for different people.
The Role:
As a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, you are responsible for engineering patterns for producing production-ready models and creating and maintaining our infrastructure for data science work. This includes cloud resources such as databases, clusters, and storage. This also includes infrastructure that doesn’t yet exist such as model training / serving platforms for Applied Scientists developing models.
Your Impact
- Research, define and implement technical solutions to empower our Applied Scientist teams
- Create robust data pipelines for production machine learning products
- Work with other engineering teams to build abstractions and create standards and best practices for building and operating Models
- Create tools & infrastructure to build, test, deploy, and monitor ML Models
- Work with our scientists to deploy and own model reliability in production
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in a ML Engineering role or supporting ML Models
- Solid software engineering skills, preferably in Python
- Experience with our tech stack (listed below)
- Experience with machine learning platforms such as Kubeflow, MLflow, or Seldon
- Some knowledge of of machine learning methods and tools
- Working with remote team members
Our Tech Stack
- Python
- Tensorflow, NumPy, SciPy
- Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow,
- Google Cloud Platform
- Git, Bazel
- Terraform
- GDAL, S2, Proj4
Who You Are
- Curious. You are always exploring and experimenting, interested in why and how, seeking not only to understand but to make work and the world better. You enthusiastically share your learning with others and actively seek information and knowledge.
- Conscientious. You are determined, always keep your promises, and are forward thinking. Principled and integrous, you take your commitments seriously.
- Humble. Unpretentious and self-aware, you cultivate compassion for others and take responsibility for your mistakes. Egoes are barriers to doing the best work and always learning.
- Open and Inclusive. You are receptive and interested in new ideas and perspectives, even when those perspectives don’t agree with your views. You value and respect difference and create ways for all people to contribute to the organization.
- Collaborative. You know it takes a team to get anything accomplished and you actively and inclusively work across the organization. You listen intently and openly and are always focused first on creating the best results.
- Adaptable. You are able to navigate changing circumstances and environments with ease and approach uncertainty with enthusiasm, while inspiring others towards effective goal setting and accomplishment.
Top Reasons To Work At Descartes Labs
- We pride collaboration over ownership, iteration over perfection, principles over rules, and discussion over directives
- We’re using the world’s top technology to solve the world’s largest problems with a strong focus on sustainability, environment, and impact science
- We look at Descartes Labs as a work environment where people are included, treat their colleagues with professional regard and respect, and thrive as a result
- We’re a highly collaborative company that constantly promotes success through teamwork
- We strongly encourage and enjoy a flexible work environment
- Descartes Labs offers a generous compensation package including a competitive salary; choice of medical plan; dental, life, and disability insurance; a 401K plan; paid holidays and flexible paid time off
You belong here! Nobody checks every box and if your experience and interests match some of the above, we want you to apply.
Descartes Labs is committed to building a diverse community, where employees feel they belong, even if they are different. Scientific discovery is in our DNA and the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be; diversity fuels innovation!
Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates during all aspects of our interview process.
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