Principal Machine Learning Engineer

iHerb seeks a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in Irvine, CA (onsite) with a yearly salary range of USD 205,000 to 230,000; requires a Bachelor's Degree and at least 3 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Data Platform team to share and exchange best practices in both directions
• Implement standardized patterns and abstractions across ML pipelines to streamline the process from problem framing to production deployment
• Design horizontal, scalable solutions to robustly expand the team's ML models and processes
• Develop software using object‑oriented design patterns, with a focus on reducing technical debt and maintaining high availability
• Participate in requirements reviews, design reviews, and code reviews
• Research and prototype new technologies to support rapid business growth
• Engage cross‑functionally with various technical teams and closely collaborate with data and applied scientists to identify platform improvements

Requirements

• Strong coding experience in Java, C#, or Python
• Experience gathering data from multiple sources using big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, BigQuery, Athena, etc.)
• Experience building ML infrastructure following robust software engineering practices
• Knowledge of modern software development tools and practices (design patterns, CI/CD, Git, unit testing, smoke testing, integration testing, job schedulers, cloud technologies like AWS Lambdas and Google functions, etc.)
• Exposure to all aspects of the software development life cycle
• Experience with messaging technologies (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask

Technologies

• Java
• C#
• Python
• Spark
• Hadoop
• BigQuery
• Athena
• AWS Lambdas
• Google functions
• Kafka
• Google Pub/Sub
• Kinesis
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Git
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Google Business Suite

iHerb does not accept unsolicited 3rd party ("Agency") candidates. If you are an Agency, please send any requests to be considered as a supplier in our Vendor Management System to [email protected]. Do not contact iHerb employees directly. If requested to work on a role, any Agency candidates would be presented through the internal recruiting organization.