Senior Machine Learning Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: Americas #1 Sportsbook FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform FanDuel Casino; the industrys unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states Canada and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles Atlanta and Jersey City as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The companys affiliates have offices worldwide including in Ireland Portugal Romania and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment the worlds largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

At FanDuel data is the heartbeat of our organization. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at FanDuel you will help us unlock the full potential of our vast amounts of real-time and relational data. You will be asked to provide our business with insight and our customers with world-class personalized experiences. Every click our users make every bet every touchdown every fumble and every play is fair game for us to turn into a stream of knowledge. Your expertise will be used here to make better and faster decisions outpacing our competition.

Collaboration is at the core of your role. Youll be the linchpin between engineering teams working downstream to build out our online application and upstream to land necessary data for feature engineering. Youll also be working with Data Scientists and Analysts to productionize analyze and validate AI powered insights. You will be asked to help organize model and present our data as a coherent product and offer it to our stakeholders providing a common information framework that allows FanDuel to intelligently react to what is happening on the field and in the marketplace.

We are looking for Senior Machine Learning Engineer who may be looking to make the move to a big data environment. If this describes you read on we want to hear from you!

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Building and scaling multi-layer serving architectures for ML and GenAI/LLM models
• Developing platform features and capabilities (e.g. CLI SDK Infra Automation Platform Applications) for streamlining ML Model and GenAI/LLM Application development and deployment lifecycle
• Business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau Knime Looker)
• Data security and privacy (e.g. GDPR CPP)
• Data governance and data testing frameworks
• Continuous integration and delivery of production data products
• An inclusive culture that expects excellence and priorities your growth as an engineer and your well-being as a person
• Advance your career within well-defined skill-based tracks either as an individual contributor or as a manager both providing equal opportunities for compensation and advancement
• Apply your experience and intellect as part of an autonomous team with end-to-end ownership of key components of our data architecture
• Serve as a mentor to more junior engineers not only in cultivating craftsmanship but also in achieving operational excellence system reliability automation data quality and cost-efficiency

ML engineering is a rapidly changing field most of allwere looking for someone who enjoys experimenting keeping their finger on the pulse of current data engineering tools and always thinking about how to do something better.

THE STATS
What were looking for in our next teammate

• 5-7 years of relevant experience developing code in one or more core programming languages (Python Java etc.)
• 1 Years of experience in deploying ML and GenAI/LLM models under the constraints of scalability correctness and maintainability.
  • Hands on experience with ML frameworks and libraries (Scikit-learn Pytorch Tensorflow LightGBM Keras MLFlow etc.) and familiarity with LLM-specific frameworks (e.g. LangChain Hugging Face Transformers etc).
  • Hands on experience with one or more ML and GenAI/LLM cloud services (Amazon SageMaker Amazon Bedrock Databricks Mosaic AI Seldon Arize etc)
• 4 Years of experience designing and building various software architecture with some emphasis on scalable architectures supporting both traditional ML and advanced LLM workflows.
  • Deep understanding and knowledge of data structures distributed computing and software engineering principles
• 3 Years of experience demonstrating technical leadership working with teams owning projects defining and setting technical direction for projects.
• Experience with one or more relevant tools (Flink Spark Sqoop Flume Kafka Amazon Kinesis Terraform Airflow)
• Ability to share findings in easy to consume formats whether that is through dashboards or data modeling.
• Conduct regular design process reviews and ensure development standards within the team.
• Working with leadership to drive adoption of ML and GenAI/LLM solutions to product engineering teams.
• Experience working in a cloud environment such as AWS GCP Azure.
• Experience with Databricks is a plus their unity catalog another plus.
• Designing and building data pipelines for production level ML and GenAI/LLM infrastructure.
• Experience with vector databases to efficiently manage and retrieve embeddings for LLM applications enabling high-performance similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows is a plus
• Motivate junior engineers on best practices and latest industry design patterns.
  
  
  

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning mental health support and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave) annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance) 401k with up to a 5% match commuter benefits pet insurance and more - check out all our benefits here:FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location role and level.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe as one of our principles states We are One Team!. As such we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ethnicity ancestry religion creed sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity gender expression veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued respected and included.

The applicable salary range for this position is $138000 $181650 USD which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience location business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical vision and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation including but not limited to cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please email.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC