Principal Machine Learning Engineer I

Remitly•Raleigh, NC

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable AI/ML systems and agentic architectures that support next-generation legal research and analytics products. This role combines deep ML expertise with distributed systems engineering and AI platform development. You will play a key role in developing enterprise-grade AI systems, including large language model (LLM) infrastructure, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and autonomous agent frameworks designed for complex large unstructured data.

Requirements

10 + years of Machine Learning/Software Engineer experience
Master’s degree or bachelor's degree, computer science degree is highly desirable.
Strong software engineering background with experience in building system design, architecting AI feature/products that caters large number of users and deals with large volume of unstructured data
Experience with ML deployment to production

Responsibilities

Provide architectural direction and code-level guidance.
Establish engineering best practices for ML system design, testing, and deployment.
Conduct design reviews, performance reviews, and technical roadmap planning.
Architect distributed ML systems serving multiple global products.
Standardize infrastructure patterns for LLM serving and retrieval systems.
Define and implement enterprise-ready agentic frameworks.
Architect multi-step reasoning systems.
Lead decisions on deterministic workflows vs. autonomous agents.
Implement guardrails, safety layers, and traceability mechanisms.
Develop evaluation frameworks to measure reasoning quality, hallucination rates, and reliability.
Establish CI/CD standards for ML lifecycle management.
Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance and responsible AI standards.