What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Machine Learning Engineer position at Beacon Hill?
Location: Hybrid Philadelphia, PA (2 days on site required)
Our client is seeking a hands-on Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive models. This is a highly technical role focused on building and improving scoring models, decision-support systems, and machine learning solutions that drive business outcomes.
The ideal candidate is an experienced machine learning practitioner who enjoys working directly with data, feature engineering, model development, validation, production scoring, and continuous model improvement. In addition to hands-on technical contributions, this individual will provide leadership to a small team, mentor engineers, and help shape technical direction across ML initiatives.
This is a hands-on role, with approximately 70% focused on model development and technical execution and 30% dedicated to stakeholder collaboration, team leadership, and production support.
Required
- 5 years of experience in machine learning, data science, predictive analytics, or related fields.
- Prior experience managing or leading technical teams; people management experience is required.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Python and SQL.
- Experience building and deploying predictive models into production environments.
- Deep understanding of feature engineering, model training, validation techniques, model calibration, threshold optimization, and performance monitoring.
- Experience developing decision-support systems, predictive scoring models, scorecards, or recommendation/prioritization solutions.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and modern machine learning frameworks.
- Strong understanding of model deployment, production workflows, and MLOps concepts.
- Ability to balance hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
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Company Profile:
Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.
Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.
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Benefits Information:
Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.
We look forward to working with you.
Beacon Hill. Employing the Future
Salary : $165,000 - $210,000