Salary range: $150k – $230k

Equity range: 0.01% – 0.15%

What we are looking for:

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer you will lead the framing, development, and deployment at scale of machine learning models to understand the risk of various classes of businesses. You will be turning vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from many sources (web data, geolocation, satellite imaging, etc.) into novel insights about behavior and risk. 

Kalepa’s team members bring experience from top technology, insurance, and intelligence institutions including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Uber, Doordash, Mastercard, Chubb, AIG, Zurich, Everest Insurance, MIT, Berkeley, UPenn, and the Israel Defense Forces.

Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures (early investors in Datadog, Wise, Better, Digital Ocean, TheTradeDesk, Flatiron Health, Komodo Health, etc.), Former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker’s Inspired Capital, and leaders in financial services and technology including Gokul Rajaram from Doordash, Coinbase, and Square, Jackie Reses from Square, Affirm, and Alibaba, and Henry Ward from Carta.

In July 2021 we raised a $14 million Series A funding round led by Inspired Capital, with participation from previous investor IA Ventures.

About you:

• You have 5+ years of experience in engineering and data science.
• You love to hustle: finding ways to get things done, destroying obstacles, and never taking no for an answer. The words “it can’t be done” don’t exist in your vocabulary.
• You have in-depth understanding of applied machine learning algorithms, especially NLP, and statistics
• You are experienced in Python and its major data science libraries, and have deployed models and algorithms in production
• You are comfortable with data science as well as with the engineering required to bring your models to production.
• You are excited about using a wide set of technologies, ultimately focused on finding the right tool for the job.
• You value open, frank, and respectful communication.

As a plus:

• You have experience with AWS
• You have hands-on experience with data analytics and data engineering.

What you’ll get:

• Competitive salary (based on experience level).
• Significant equity options package.
• Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
• Ground floor opportunity – an early member of Kalepa’s engineering leadership team
• 20 days of PTO a year.
• Global team offsites.
• 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
• Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
• Continuing education credits.
• Home office stipend.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.