Senior Machine Learning Engineer (data Science Algorithms)

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Machine Learning & Research

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at WHOOP, a health and fitness wearable company. The role focuses on designing, building, and productionizing ML systems for health and performance insights, working with physiological and behavioral data. Emphasizes strong coding, system design, and delivering production-ready ML solutions on cloud platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create, improve, and maintain production services that provide analysis for health features in collaboration with data scientists and MLOps engineers
  2. Collaborate with data engineers to improve ML data pipelines, tooling, and validation systems that support robust model performance
  3. Work alongside data scientists to translate research prototypes into production ML systems optimized for scale, latency and cost efficiency
  4. Collaborate with researchers and product teams to align model development with physiological insights and member impact
  5. Participate in on-call rotations for data science services, ensuring uptime and performance in production environments

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • designing, deploying and operating ML inference systems at scale
  • backend/service development (APIs, reliability, monitoring, debugging)
  • deploying and maintaining ML systems on cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
  • CI/CD
  • observability practices
  • applied ML development (frameworks, evaluation criteria, performance validation)
  • translating prototypes into production systems

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree
  • applying advanced mathematical and statistical techniques
  • time series data (wearable, physiological, or high-frequency sensor data)

What the JD emphasized

  • production-quality code
  • ML inference systems at scale
  • deploying and maintaining ML systems on cloud platforms

Other signals

  • production ML systems
  • ML inference systems at scale
  • deploying and maintaining ML systems on cloud platforms