SeniorMLEngineer

ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring a Senior ML Engineer to be the data team's owner of production ML and AI agent systems. You'll take models from prototype to production, build and maintain the low-latency ML API that powers our Next Best Action (NBA) engine, and partner with our HAL team to ship LLM agents that turn NBA recommendations into real conversations with credit union members and partners. This is a builder's role at a builder's moment: NBA is going live, the agent infrastructure is being shaped now, and you'll define how Clutch does production AI for years to come. ABOUT THE TEAM The Data team today is five people: one data scientist, two data engineers, one data analyst, and one product manager. We're small, ambitious, and shipping fast — two ML models heading to production, an ML API being built, and two AI agents (one customer-facing, one partner-facing) in active development. You'll be the senior technical voice for ML and AI engineering inside the team, and the bridge to HAL, the platform team that builds Clutch's agent runtime. Expect tight feedback loops, real autonomy, and a team that values pragmatism over purity. WHAT YOU’LL DO WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU WILL: - Take ownership of the ML API that serves NBA recommendations, partnering with the data engineer who's been building it, and harden it for low-latency production traffic - Ship your first agent tool contract end-to-end: schema design, handler implementation, structured-error contract, unit tests, deployed via HAL's runtime - Set up the eval foundation for our agents: golden transcripts, rubric-based judges, regression suites that run on every prompt or model change - Build a working relationship with HAL and become the data team's go-to on agent infrastructure decisions WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU WILL: - Be the primary owner (with data engineer support) of the ML API and the agent tool layer that wraps NBA and our ML models - Have shipped at least one production-grade agent (customer-facing or partner-faci