Staff Machine Learning Engineer — ML Infrastructure

Job overview

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer — ML Infrastructure role is hybrid in Boston, Massachusetts, with two core office days and the remaining workdays flexible between office and home. The target annual base pay range is $183,500–$244,600. The role supports SimpliSafe’s Cloud ML team and its mission of keeping every home secure. This senior individual contributor sets technical direction for ML infrastructure and helps build, deploy, and operate scalable systems for real-time computer vision and LLM applications. The work improves platform reliability and performance while enabling applied ML teams to deliver intelligent home-security features.

What you'll do

• Drive architecture decisions for the Kubernetes-based ML platform
• lead system design, capacity planning, and reliability reviews
• improve deployment infrastructure, serving reliability, observability, scaling, and cost
• own cloud-side real-time inference systems
• improve throughput, latency, and cost for production computer-vision models
• help shape production LLM serving
• mentor engineers
• establish model lifecycle practices
• lead incident response and postmortems
• define SLOs, observability standards, and on-call practices.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff machine learning engineer

ml infrastructure

cloud ml

kubernetes

ray

computer vision

llm infrastructure

boston ma

simplisafe

hybrid work

$183,500–$244,600/year

home security

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Total rewards package
• free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring
• Employee Resource Groups
• potential annual bonus, equity, medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits.

Why this role

The role spans real-time computer-vision inference and LLM/GenAI infrastructure, with technical leadership across the Cloud ML team.

About the employer

SimpliSafe is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.