Staff Applied ML Engineer

You are excited to build the intelligence layer for manufacturing operations: systems that help the factory understand what is happening, predict what is likely to happen next, and respond earlier and better as a result. You are a strong technical builder who likes hard problems with real operational consequences. You can take an ambiguous manufacturing problem and turn it into a working system that engineers and operations teams actually use. You are comfortable working across software, data, engineering logic, and manufacturing systems. You know how to deal with noisy plant data, imperfect systems, and messy failure modes. You do not stop at visibility. You build systems that drive action. We are looking for someone who has built and shipped systems that changed how an operation runs. • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field • Strong programming skills in Python and experience building production-quality software, internal applications, or data products beyond notebooks and dashboards • Strong experience with scientific computing and machine learning libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, or equivalent tools • Experience building and deploying software services, APIs, data pipelines, or internal platforms using tools such as FastAPI, Flask, SQL, Spark, Airflow, dbt, or similar technologies • Experience working with time-series, sensor, event, equipment, MES, historian, quality, or other industrial data • Experience training, validating, and deploying custom models for prediction, classification, anomaly detection, forecasting, optimization, or control-related use cases • Strong systems thinking and the ability to translate ambiguous plant problems into robust technical solutions • Experience taking technical systems from concept to deployment with measurable real-world impact • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and operational teams • Experience building models that connect process conditions or recipe parameters to downstream quality or product performance outcomes • Experience with predictive maintenance, process monitoring, fault analysis, quality prediction, or root-cause analysis in industrial settings • Familiarity with MES, historians, plant systems architecture, or controls-adjacent environments • Experience with sequence modeling, multivariate analysis, optimization, simulation, or hybrid physics and data-driven approaches • Experience using modern AI workflows, including LLMs or agentic systems, in practical engineering or operational contexts • Manufacturing experience is a plus, but we welcome candidates from adjacent operational domains with strong applied modeling and deployment experience The starting base pay for this role is between $151,000 and $177,500 at the time of posting. The actual base pay depends on many factors, such as education, experience, and skills. Base pay is only one part of Sila’s competitive Total Rewards package that can include benefits, perks, equity. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. #LI-RS1 #LI-Onsite