Software Engineer 5 – Model Development and Management, AI Platform

Overview

Software Engineer 5 on Netflix's Model Development and Management team, building the user interface layer of the AI Platform to accelerate model creation, evaluation, experimentation and deployment.

What you'll do

• Gather requirements, design and implement products that accelerate model development for different ML use cases.
• Work alongside applied researchers and data scientists on machine learning.
• Engage with the ML community to source feedback, identify pain points and opportunities to evolve the platform.
• Help shape the future of ML infrastructure at Netflix, with opportunities to contribute to open-source projects.

What you'll need

• Experience developing platform solutions such as SDKs, developer frameworks or internal tooling used by ML Researchers, ML Engineers and Data Scientists, with a user-first approach and strong user empathy.
• Excellent software design and development skills in Python along with one of Scala, Java or C++.
• Experience working on or alongside modern, large-scale ML services, understanding the full lifecycle from data and features to training, experiment tracking and production deployment.
• Strong software engineering background, a keen sense of software design, and proven experience with distributed applications and ML systems.
• Good communicator who works well in large cross-functional teams.
• 5+ years of full time software engineering or machine learning experience with a bachelor's and master's degree; or PhD degree.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ML workflow orchestration, experiment tracking, or feature/data infrastructure, ideally with tools like Metaflow, Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, or similar.
• Broad understanding of core machine learning concepts and their application in large-scale, real-world machine-learning systems.
• Experience building machine learning models or LLMs.
• Experience designing or building agentic systems.
• Experience working with public clouds, especially AWS.
• Significant contributions to open source projects.

Details

• Location: USA, remote.
• Compensation range: $466,000.00 - $750,000.00 per year, varying by location.