Staff ML Engineer

Docker
Palo Alto, Seattle
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 205,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Hands-on Staff ML Engineer on the Intelligence org who will shape technical direction, ship initial intelligence capabilities, and build foundations (data, evaluation, infrastructure) for Docker's platform. You’ll design and deploy ML systems for governance and security, develop supporting data pipelines and serving infrastructure, and help recruit and mentor a growing team in an early-stage setting.

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3 months ago

Staff ML Engineer

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Job Summary

Hands-on Staff ML Engineer on the Intelligence org who will shape technical direction, ship initial intelligence capabilities, and build foundations (data, evaluation, infrastructure) for Docker's platform. You’ll design and deploy ML systems for governance and security, develop supporting data pipelines and serving infrastructure, and help recruit and mentor a growing team in an early-stage setting.
Location: Palo Alto, Seattle
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, train, evaluate, and ship ML systems that power governance and security capabilities (e.g., prompt injection detection, behavioral anomaly detection, trust scoring, policy recommendations).
  • •Build the supporting infrastructure: data pipelines, feature stores, model serving, evaluation harnesses, and fast feedback loops.
  • •Make pragmatic build-vs-buy calls using frontier models, off-the-shelf tooling, and managed services while investing in custom systems where advantageous.
  • •Set technical direction for the team's ML work: architecture, evaluation methodology, model lifecycle, and shipping bar.
  • •Help recruit, mentor, and shape the team as it grows; participate in 24/7 on-call rotation as needed.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 205,000 - 330,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityRemote WorkHealth InsuranceParental LeaveTechnology Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of deep applied ML/AI expertise with a track record of shipping production systems in fraud, abuse, safety, security, or trust domains.
  • •8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • •Built and owned ML systems end-to-end (data pipelines, serving, evaluation, monitoring) and shipped customer-facing products.
  • •Experience with LLM-based systems in production (evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, retrieval, guardrails, agent frameworks) and familiarity with the agent/MCP ecosystem.
Experience:AIMLSoftware
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationMentorshipProblem-solvingLeadership
Tech Stack:LLMsPrompt engineeringModel servingData pipelinesFeature storesEvaluation

Company Brief

Docker
Docker builds developer tools and a collaborative platform for building, sharing and running containerized applications, including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub, to simplify container workflows from code to cloud.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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