Machine Learning Engineer - Insurance AI

Nearmap • Carlsbad, CA

11d

About The Position

About the Role We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our Insurance AI team. You'll be the engineering backbone for our Data Scientists, building and maintaining the ML infrastructure that turns models into reliable, scalable products. This isn't a greenfield build-everything-from-scratch role. Our Sydney-based AI & Computer Vision team has built robust ML tooling and pipelines. Your job is to extend, adapt, and maintain that infrastructure for US-specific use cases. If you're someone who gets satisfaction from making existing systems work better rather than reinventing the wheel, keep reading. You'll work closely with Data Scientists in the US and ML Engineers in Australia, acting as the technical bridge that keeps both teams moving fast.
What You'll Do You'll own the ML engineering function for the US Insurance AI team. That means building data and model pipelines, integrating with internal and external APIs, and making sure our Data Scientists have the tools they need to ship models to production. You'll collaborate daily with our Sydney AICV team to leverage shared infrastructure and contribute improvements back. Day to day, you'll write Python, wrangle data pipelines, debug production issues, and translate Data Scientist requirements into working systems. You'll use AWS, work with cloud-native technologies, and operate within an established MLOps framework.

Requirements

• 2-4 years as a Machine Learning Engineer or ML-focused Software Engineer
• Strong Python skills with a track record of writing clean, tested, production-grade code
• Hands-on experience with ML libraries like PyTorch, scikit-learn, and pandas
• Experience building and maintaining ML pipelines in production environments
• Solid SQL skills and familiarity with data engineering tools (Airflow, Spark, or dbt)
• The ability to jump into an existing codebase, understand it, and extend it
• Clear communication skills and comfort working across time zones

Nice To Haves

• AWS experience (S3, EC2, ECS, or similar)
• Experience consuming and integrating REST APIs at scale
• Docker and containerisation experience
• MLOps experience including CI/CD and model monitoring
• Familiarity with geospatial or aerial imagery data
• Experience with pipeline orchestration tools like Ray, Kubeflow, or Flyte

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature processing, model training, deployment, and monitoring in AWS
• Extend and adapt existing tooling from our Sydney AICV team for US Insurance AI use cases
• Develop and support internal tools and frameworks that streamline experimentation and improve delivery speed
• Integrate internal and external APIs to connect datasets, models, and services
• Partner with Data Scientists to understand their workflow needs and translate them into scalable technical solutions
• Ensure infrastructure supports rapid experimentation while maintaining reliability, security, and scalability
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, API engineers, and platform teams to deploy models in production
• Contribute to a shared codebase through feature branches, pull requests, and code reviews

Benefits

• Quarterly wellbeing day off - Four additional days off a year as your "YOU" days
• Company-sponsored volunteering days to give back.
• Generous parental leave policies for growing families.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous growth.
• Discounted Health Insurance plans.
• Monthly technology allowance.
• Annual flu vaccinations and skin checks.
• A Nearmap subscription (naturally!).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees