Staff Machine Learning Engineer

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer at The Home Depot leads ML software engineers, provides technical direction for ML systems, and drives production deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of ML solutions at scale in collaboration with product teams.

Location

Atlanta, GA (remote)

Compensation

USD 120,000 - 190,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Delivery and Execution: Collaborates with UX, engineering, and product management to design secure, reliable, and scalable ML solutions; ensures user stories are developer-ready, understandable, and testable; configures off-the-shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs; builds meaningful dashboards, logging, alerts, and remediation workflows to proactively address issues.
• Learning: Engages in ongoing learning about modern software design, machine learning, and core development practices; reviews articles, tutorials, and videos to stay current with industry innovations; attends conferences to apply new techniques where appropriate.
• Strategy and Planning: Researches business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities and initiatives; leads evaluation, development, and recommendation of technology products and platforms to deliver cost-effective solutions; designs infrastructure, network, database, security, and ML architectures; proactively creates and maintains tools to support ML initiatives.
• Support and Enablement: Addresses questions from product and support teams; fosters cross-team collaboration; provides production application support; monitors production service level objectives; reviews performance and capacity across code, infrastructure, data, message processing, and prediction quality.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Technologies

• Google Cloud Platform
• Vertex AI
• BigQueryML
• AutoML
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Pandas
• SciPy
• Scikit-learn
• Gensim
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• Python
• SQL
• Git
• Linux
• Unix
• BigQuery
• Data Store
• REST
• CI/CD
• GANs
• GRU
• LSTMs
• RNNs
• CNNs
• Style transfer

Benefits

• Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition
• 401(K) savings plan with company match
• Merit increases and performance bonuses
• On-the-spot recognition and rewards for a job well done
• Bonus Eligible
• 401(k) Company Matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

Direct Manager / Direct Reports

• This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr Software Engineer Manager
• This position has 0 direct reports

Travel Requirements

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunities to move; on rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Education

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

Preferred Education

No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience

3

Preferred Years of Work Experience

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience

None

Preferred Leadership Experience

None

Certifications

None

Competencies

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy