DraftKings

DraftKings

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Boston, MA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 122 days ago
PythonCode ReviewSQLMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceMLOpsIncident ResponseCommunicationCollaboration

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About the role

  • It's transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities.
  • Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology.
  • We're not waiting for the future to arrive.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain ETL and feature engineering pipelines that power risk and payment applications.
  • Develop production ML systems, from training and evaluation through deployment and monitoring.
  • Partner with data scientists to productionize models that integrate into DK's decisioning systems.
  • Build reliable, well-tested data workflows - from SQL-based feature transformations through model training and deployment.
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and incident response, helping to maintain strong engineering practices.
  • Support on-call rotations and post-incident reviews to ensure continuous system improvement.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals - object-oriented design, testing, and version control.
  • Experience building or maintaining data and feature pipelines in a data-heavy environment.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience writing production Python applications and working with structured data (SQL and data modeling).
  • As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is 134,400.00 USD - 168,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
  • Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

Benefits

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (Master's preferred).
  • Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Company info

  • At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas.
  • Our mission is to enable explainable and reliable decision-making across all financial and operational flows - from registration and deposits, to gameplay and withdrawals.

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