About the Role
This role involves an AI-first engineering rebuild for a company with an audience exceeding 100 million people. It is a zero-to-one build without legacy constraints, offering the opportunity to establish ML systems correctly from inception. The primary goal is to ship machine learning solutions that generate real, measurable value for a massive consumer audience.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate ML systems for the MrBeast ecosystem.
- Bridge data science, software engineering, and platform engineering to deliver production-grade capabilities.
- Build scalable ML systems and services that impact business metrics for a large audience.
- Own the full ML lifecycle, including data processing, feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Set AI-first engineering standards, including model testing and production integration.
- Develop, evaluate, and optimize models against real business problems.
- Establish monitoring, observability, and model performance tracking.
- Partner with product, data scientists, and software engineers to define and ship ML solutions.
- Drive architecture decisions for ML infrastructure and platform capabilities, reducing deployment cycle time.
- Mentor engineers, establish best practices, and ensure systems meet security, reliability, and compliance standards.
Requirements
- AI-native mindset with a focus on shipping ML.
- 8+ years in software or ML engineering.
- Strong experience deploying and operating ML systems in production.
- Solid Python and software engineering practice.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
- Understanding of why models that perform well offline may fail in production.
- Evidence-driven approach with a focus on experimentation and measurable results.
- Ownership of outcomes from design through production operation.
Skills
- Python
- Software engineering practice
- Designing scalable distributed systems
- Designing data-intensive applications
- Experimentation
- MLOps platforms
- Automated model lifecycle management
- Cloud-native ML architectures
- Distributed training
- Responsible AI
- Model governance
- Leading technical initiatives across multiple teams
Location
- Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula)
- NYC
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Typically 8+ years in software or ML engineering
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity package
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Dental
- Vision
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
About the Company
- Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast).
- Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, with a diverse portfolio beyond YouTube.
- Mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact.
- Operates across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives.
- Believes in the transformative power of digital media to entertain, educate, and effect positive change.
- Driven by innovation, creativity, and philanthropy to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build an inspiring legacy.
