Ascent
Ascent is the industry's leading compliance automation solution.
Chicago, IL

Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

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Overview

At Ascent we are building an intelligent compliance platform that enables compliance professionals to easily track and understand their compliance obligations and related regulation. To support that platform, we are also building a data and machine-learning back-end; this back-end will house, coordinate, and route all of our data pipelines and machine learning models.

We are looking for experienced, passionate infrastructure engineers to help us build and maintain that platform. As a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Ascent, you will be working closely with other Engineers and Data Scientists and the broader tech team to design and build infrastructure that a) ingests and handles data (e.g. regulations, customer data, machine learning features, etc); b) deploys and coordinates data microservices such as machine learning models or other transformations; c) facilitates workflows across these microservices and data layers; and d) tests, monitors, and reports on itself. Given the increased responsibility at the Senior level, you will play a strong role in designing this infrastructure, thinking about the long-term implications of design decisions, as well as hiring and mentoring more junior engineers.

We use both hosted solutions and open source tools. We have a strong bias towards containerization and internal transparency. We also place a high premium on our culture and values, both within the tech team and the company as a whole. We believe a diversity of opinions and perspectives creates a stronger team and product, and we are committed to an equal opportunity hiring process.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build infrastructure to host machine learning models as microservices using modern conventions and coding practices
  • Help design and implement data models and database layers that support our data science activities
  • Use creativity and independent thinking to solve technical problems
  • Mentor more junior team members
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues about our data engineering projects
  • Work closely with data scientists to understand their needs and processes
  • Work closely with our whole technology team to successfully maintain our data platform alongside the broader technology stack
  • Implement strong and consistent internal API conventions and documentation
  • Implement with an emphasis on tests, maintainability, and clean coding practices to produce simple solutions and reduce technical debt

Minimum Skills and Experience

  • 3+ years building and maintaining back-end services in production, preferably using container-based architectures
  • 1+ years building and maintaining data science pipelines that incorporate machine learning models in a production environment behind an API
  • Experience with large data sets and modern tools for handling them such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Mesos, etc
  • Experience using AWS tools and services
  • Ability to develop creative technical solutions given a set of business requirements and a strong understanding of modern data architectures
  • Ability to work productively on small teams and lead workstreams independently if needed
  • Experience mentoring less experienced colleagues
  • Ability to communicate technical ideas to non-technical colleagues
  • Proficient in SQL, *nix CLI tools (grep/sed/awk/BASH, etc), and Python
  • Familiarity with Java and an understanding of the JVM ecosystem
  • Experience deploying and maintaining code using git-based tools and operating in a continuous deployment/integration environment
  • Experience writing thorough tests and documentation for maintainable code-bases

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • 3+ years building and maintaining data science pipelines that incorporate machine learning models in a production environment behind an API
  • Experience working with data scientists in production roles
  • Experience with container management solutions like Kubernetes, Marathon, etc
  • Experience with solutions for “fast data” architectures like DC/OS or other similar architectures and tools
  • Experience storing and using large amounts of text data and text transformations
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What are Ascent Perks + Benefits

Ascent Benefits Overview

Everyone brings a unique set of skills and talents, and we want to take advantage of everything you have to offer. We also want to make sure you get as much out of this opportunity as you put in, and we’ll give you the support you need for Ascent to be a transformational period of growth in your career.

Our team enjoys a number of benefits and perks, including:

Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; premiums paid 95% for the individual
- Medical HSA/FSAs
- Life insurance
- 401K
- Disability benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Dependent Care FSA
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Care Leave
- Backup child/senior/pet care stipend
- Professional development stipend
- Charitable matching gift program
- The opportunity to work with smart people on challenging problems!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Charitable Matching Gift Program - annual match of employee donations to organizations of their choice
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Flexible work schedule
Ascent offers a completely flexible scheduling and work from home policy.
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Employer-paid Long Term Disability provided, covering up to 60% of annual salary. Voluntary Short Term Disability is also available.
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Multiple plan options with Blue Cross Blue Shield, as well an HSA (Heath Savings Account).
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Ascent offers Dependent Care FSA
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Ascent also provides 3 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Onsite gym
There is an on-site gym in Prudential Plaza which is free to employees.
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Ascent offers a generous professional development stipend per year.
Lunch and learns
Ascent hosts bi-weekly lunch and learn meetings with internal and external speakers.
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

We want to create an environment where people can do their best work. That means supporting our employees in their careers, in their health, and in their lives. We're always looking for ways to concretely demonstrate these values. For example, we pay 95% of our employees' individual health premiums!

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