Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Platform)

The role

The Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer owns the infrastructure and systems that allow the ML discipline to move fast, ship reliably, and scale. You will define the technical roadmap for training pipelines, serving architecture, and monitoring systems while building tooling to accelerate ML delivery.

What you will do

• Own the ML platform strategy end-to-end
• Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for training pipelines, serving architecture, experiment management, and monitoring systems
• Develop foundational infrastructure to accelerate ML delivery from idea to production
• Solve hard distributed systems problems including training across distributed data
• Ensure models run efficiently across varied GPU hardware
• Design scalable, flexible serving architecture
• Identify bottlenecks slowing the team down
• Define contracts and interfaces between training, evaluation, and serving
• Build the roadmap to turn research into routine delivery

Required qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience building and operating training pipelines, distributed compute, model serving, and monitoring systems at scale
• Strong proficiency writing and optimising custom CUDA kernels for deep learning training
• Experience diagnosing performance bottlenecks in sparse architectures
• Proven experience across production model monitoring, data quality frameworks, and training data warehouses brought to ML readiness
• Demonstrated ability to set ML platform standards, influence engineering roadmaps, and drive alignment on complex infrastructure decisions
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent)
• Strong system design instincts
• R&D foundation
• Experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with on-prem or neocloud environments
• Track record of leading, mentoring, and coaching ML engineers

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful ESOP
• Fully Flexible Work Environment
• Fully stocked office and snack collection in Redfern
• Regular office events

About the company

Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents. The company aims to help asset owners understand challenges and build a more resilient global energy future.