MLOps Engineer - Kohler Ventures

Work Mode:Hybrid

Location:Hybrid - 3 days/week onsite in either Palo Alto, CA or NYC

Opportunity

Kohler Ventures is an independent company wholly owned by Kohler Co., global leader in the manufacture of kitchen and bath products, tile and home interiors, and an international host to award winning hospitality and world-class golf destinations. Our mission is to build new digital businesses that empower consumers to lead healthier lives. We explore how familiar experiences can be enhanced and innovations developed through the integration of leading-edge technology, science, and design.

Come join us as we build a best-in-class global multi-disciplinary team across artificial intelligence, machine learning, design, advanced software and hardware engineering, strategy, ventureinvestments, sales, marketing, and partnerships. Our locations are Palo Alto, CA US, New York City,NY US, Kohler, WI US, Seoul, Korea, and Tel Aviv, Israel. We are seeking a Machine LearningEngineer who is passionate about applying machine learning to consumer products. The candidateshould also have a desire to execute and guide model development through all phases of the productdevelopment life cycle. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record as a machine learningengineer, taking models from design to proof-of-concept and launch.

In your role as Machine Learning Ops Engineer at Kohler Ventures you will:

• Build and maintain ML pipelines to perform complex statistical analyses and architect/train ML models on large data sets of unique data
• Design, build, automate, deploy and maintain machine learning production pipelines.
• Implement machine learning model lifecycle management framework.
• Build model performance tracking tools, to monitor month over month model performance, identify drivers and provide recommendations for model performance improvement
• Support the development of start-to-finish data product solutions from requirements gathering and ideation, through interface design and implementation.
• Participate in product discussions and roadmap exercises to understand business use cases Author technical documentation and reports to communicate process and results
• Communicate applied machine learning and statistic strategy to project sponsors, business leaders, and development teams across Kohler Ventures
• Support development of the overall product strategy via understanding of the competitive landscape, available and upcoming third-party integrations, and industry practices
• Collaborate with Engineering teammates to deploy models into production
• Collaborate with regulatory team to develop intended use and regulatory strategy
• Collaborate with advanced research team to design and implement data science applications.

Skills/Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working on commercial deep learning projects and have appreciationfor, and a vision to implement, a well-organized deep learning infrastructure.
• 3+ years hands on experience in building and maintaining data science applications and AWS
• Sagemaker ML pipelines
• Experience with AWS CDK
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines set up and configuration
• Strong skills in one or more languages: Typescript (Preferred), JavaScript, Python
• A solid understanding of Machine Learning workflows including ingesting, analyzing,transforming data, and evaluating results to make meaningful predictions
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, ECS), ArgoCD, AWS native systems such as Lambdafunctions, Step Function, Load Balancers etc.
• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) and/or postgraduate degree or higher involving machine learning,computer science, statistics, or another STEM field
• Experience with large data sets, distributed computing, and cloud computing platforms.
• Grasp of classical statistics, such as fitting regression models, inference testing & sampling.
• Understanding data structures, data modelling and software engineering best practices.
• Experience in electronics, connected or smart home devices experience preferred
• Demonstrating deep understanding of and ability to teach concepts, tools, features, functions,and benefits of different approaches to apply them
• Minimal travel both domestic and international as needed.
• Availability to work outside of standard businesshours to be able to collaboratewith teams and vendors across multipletime zones.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with safety and compliance standards related to health/wellness technology.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as Pytorch, tensorflow.

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Why Choose Kohler?
We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With more than 30,000 bold leaders across the globe, we're driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

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