Machine Learning Engineer

Samsung Austin Semiconductor is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to build and maintain end-to-end model pipelines focused on anomaly detection and root cause analysis. The role emphasizes distributed processing of manufacturing time-series and operational data, with heavy use of PySpark to take datasets from ingestion through training, validation, deployment, and monitoring in production.

This full-time onsite position is located in Taylor, TX and offers a base salary range of $90,000 to $174,500 per year. The team is focused on building reproducible, auditable ML workflows that can be reliably retrained and rolled back when performance shifts.

What you’ll do

• Develop PySpark workflows to ingest, clean, and transform high-volume manufacturing data, producing structured datasets for training and inference.
• Improve Spark performance by tuning partition strategies, managing executor memory, reducing shuffle, and addressing skewed joins to lower runtime and cluster usage.
• Create and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines that automate feature calculation, model training, validation, and deployment while ensuring runs are reproducible and auditable.
• Implement and tune machine learning models for anomaly detection and root cause analysis.
• Own the production model lifecycle including version tracking, secure artifact storage, automated retraining triggers, and rollback procedures when performance degrades.
• Monitor pipeline execution times, data quality, and model metrics such as accuracy, drift, and throughput, and build alerting rules to detect failures or degradation early.

What you bring

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 3 to 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining machine learning systems.
• Strong proficiency in PySpark and distributed data processing, including experience optimizing jobs for speed and memory.
• Hands-on experience with Python ML libraries including scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or XGBoost.
• Practical knowledge of MLOps, including pipeline orchestration, model versioning, experiment tracking, and deployment.
• Experience setting up monitoring and alerting for both data pipelines and deployed models.

Technologies

• PySpark, Spark
• Python
• scikit-learn
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• XGBoost

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance and 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
• Onsite café(s) and workout facilities
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Paid time off (PTO) + 2 personal holidays and 10 regular holidays
• Wellness incentives and MORE
• Eligible full-time employees (salaried or hourly) may receive MBO bonuses based on company, division, and individual performance

Preferred

• Experience setting up model registries, automated retraining triggers, and rollback procedures to keep production models reliable.
• Experience writing automated tests and validation checks for data pipelines and model outputs to catch errors before deployment.
• Familiarity with on-prem or private cloud infrastructure, including cluster management and secure artifact storage.

Additional information

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