Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Motion Recruitment is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead technical efforts that translate emerging AI ideas into durable, large-scale product capabilities. This role is based in Providence, RI with a hybrid schedule, and it centers on building and shipping production-ready systems for generative AI, semantic search, retrieval frameworks, and multi-step agent workflows.

Working in a hands-on capacity, you will develop AI features that help professionals discover, evaluate, and use complex information more effectively. You will also coordinate across application, cloud, data, and security teams to align on performance, reliability, and governance needs while creating scalable services and shared infrastructure for distributed machine learning.

Responsibilities

• 100% hands-on technical contribution across the full lifecycle of AI feature development.
• Develop and release AI features that improve how professionals discover, evaluate, and use complex information.
• Create scalable services and shared infrastructure for distributed machine learning applications.
• Implement retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, and supporting components for generative AI products.
• Coordinate with application, cloud, data, and security teams to meet performance, reliability, and governance requirements.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and delivering applied machine learning solutions.
• Proven ability to build systems powered by large language models and AI agents.
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and vector-based search.
• Experience supporting model delivery through MLOps tooling and production practices.
• Advanced Python programming ability.
• Experience deploying cloud-native services with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Prior work in legal technology, knowledge management, publishing, or another information-rich industry.
• 12+ years of software development experience, or 8+ years with a doctorate.
• Degree in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or a comparable technical field.

Technologies

• Python
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• MLOps
• Large language models
• AI agents
• Retrieval-augmented generation
• Embeddings
• Vector-based search

Benefits

• Performance bonus eligibility
• Medical insurance options
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time away from work
• 401(k) plan with company matching when applicable

This hybrid opportunity is located in Providence, Rhode Island, with benefits including performance bonus eligibility, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time away from work, and a 401(k) plan with company matching when applicable.