Machine Learning Engineering Senior Engineer

Job Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (W2 Contract, NO C2C) Location: Dearborn, MI. (Must be local) Job Type: Engineering Expected hours per week: 40 hours per week Schedule: Onsite Pay Range: $70+ an hour Job Description Position Description We are seeking an ML Ops / Data Platform Engineer to build and maintain scalable machine learning and data platforms supporting connected vehicle and agentic AI initiatives. This role focuses on designing robust cloud-based data pipelines, optimizing ML solutions, and enabling secure, reliable, and cost?effective production systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will work closely with data scientists, analytics stakeholders, and product teams to deliver high?quality data and ML solutions across streaming and batch pipelines while promoting best practices in data governance, DevOps, and software quality. Key Responsibilities ML Ops & Data Engineering • Build scalable ML data pipelines in the cloud to process large volumes of connected vehicle data • Optimize ML solutions for performance, security, reliability, and cost • Support continual learning approaches to improve production model performance • Develop analytical data products using streaming and batch ingestion patterns on GCP • Monitor data quality and ML model performance across pipelines and platforms Platform & Infrastructure • Maintain and enhance data platform infrastructure using Terraform • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data and ML workloads • Enhance DevOps capabilities across the data platform • Monitor production pipelines and provide operational support according to SLAs Architecture, Governance & Quality • Implement and promote enterprise data governance models, including data protection, quality, lineage, and standards • Perform data mapping, lineage documentation, and information flow analysis • Address code quality and security findings using tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and Cycode • Continuously optimize existing pipelines, platforms, and infrastructure Collaboration & Communication • Collaborate with analytics, data science, and business stakeholders to streamline data acquisition and delivery • Provide analysis of connected vehicle data to support new product development and vehicle improvements • Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non?technical audiences • Work in an Agile product team using TDD, CI, and CD practices Required Skills • Strong technical communication and stakeholder collaboration skills • Machine Learning and ML Ops experience • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – deep hands-on experience required • Python, SQL, and Java • Data engineering and data architecture • Streaming and batch data pipelines • Apache Kafka or GCP Pub/Sub • Spark • REST APIs and microservices • CI/CD, GitHub, Docker, Tekton • Agile software development (Scrum) • Data governance concepts and implementation Preferred Skills • TensorFlow • Telematics or connected vehicle data • Data modeling, data mining, and database design • Cloud infrastructure architecture • Troubleshooting and problem solving • Experience mentoring junior engineers Experience Requirements • PhD • 4+ years in data engineering, data products, or software product development • Experience with at least three of the following: Java, Python, Spark/Scala, SQL • 3+ years building production batch and streaming pipelines using: • BigQuery, Redshift, or Azure Synapse • Airflow or similar orchestration tools • Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) • Kafka or Pub/Sub • Microservices architectures • Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker • Jira or similar project management tools Nice to Have • ML model development or ML Ops experience • GCP certifications • Experience with cloud migrations or platform modernization • Open-source contributions • Automotive or connected services domain experience • Passion for modern data engineering and ML platform design Benefits: 80 hours paid time off, medical insurance contributions, dental vision and our 401k retirement savings plan