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When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these
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part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to
supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.
With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN
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media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.
The Machine Learning Engineering team is responsible for building, deploying,
and optimizing models and APIs to help improve all of Penn Entertainments
digital offerings. Our team values creativity, collaboration, ingenuity, and
ownership. As a Software Engineer, ML Platform you'll be instrumental in
crafting the next generation of user experiences. You will design, build, and
deploy sophisticated machine learning models and infrastructure that directly
impact how users discover content, engage with our community, and explore the
full spectrum of Penn Entertainment's offerings. This role offers a unique
chance to contribute to high-impact projects while helping to advance our
cutting-edge ML platform.
About the Work
We're focused on projects that directly improve user engagement and
satisfaction. Some examples include:
- Personalized Recommendation Engines: Connect users with the content, games,
and promotions they'll love.
- Experimentation Framework: Guide data-driven decision-making by providing
foundations for AB testing and experimentation.
- Dynamic Personalization: Implement real-time, ML-driven decisions to create
seamless user journeys.
- Cutting-Edge MLOps: Help us scale our ML platform using the latest tools and
best practices (GCP, Kubernetes, PyTorch, Dagster, and more).
As part of the Machine Learning Engineering team, you will:
- Build and optimize end-to-end machine learning pipelines from data ingestion
to deployment.
- Work closely with Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to align ML
solutions with business goals.
- Improve our ML platform and deploy infrastructure using MLOps best practices.
- Evaluate and integrate new tools, models, and frameworks to enhance
scalability and performance.
- Clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical
stakeholders.
- Document your systems and workflows using Git, Confluence, and related tools.
About You
You’re someone who’s passionate about putting machine learning into production
and making personalization work at scale. You bring:
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in ML, data, or backend software
engineering
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python and SQL. Familiarity with cloud
platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- MLOps & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with ML model deployment, CI/CD
pipelines, IaC tools (Terraform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and
orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar).
- ML Tooling: Experience with model packaging and serving technologies such as
TensorFlow, Pytorch, MLflow, Vertex AI, or AWS SageMaker.
- Collaboration: Solid communication skills and a desire to work
cross-functionally with data scientists, ML engineers, and platform teams.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related
technical field.
Nice to have:
- Experience building real-time personalization or recommendation systems at
scale.
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and alerting tools for ML
systems.
- Exposure to working with or deploying large language models (LLMs) in
production.
What We Offer :
- Competitive compensation package
- Fun, relaxed work environment
- Education and conference reimbursements.
- Parental leave top up
- Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others
LI-REMOTE
Penn Interactive is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider
all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability,
veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable
law.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Penn Interactive provides to
compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are
eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most
non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Penn Interactive
provides best-in-class benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits
should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help
you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options,
expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of
your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally
through the big milestones and in your everyday life.
