Roper Technologies is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to help design, build, and deploy advanced AI systems across their portfolio of market-leading software businesses. The role focuses on developing scalable machine learning products and services, with responsibilities that include leading architectural initiatives and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and deploy machine learning models and AI systems in production environments
- Develop components such as:
- Model inference services
- Data and feature pipelines
- Complex recommendation and matching services
- Vision based analysis systems
- Evaluation and monitoring pipelines
- Optimize models for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Contribute to the development of AI agents and multi-step workflow automation systems
- Build systems that integrate with enterprise tools and APIs
- Implement tool-use frameworks, memory mechanisms, and evaluation loops
- Experiment with LLMs, foundation models, and fine-tuning approaches
- Help translate AI research advances into practical, scalable solutions
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in architecture design and technical reviews
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and MLOps workflows
- Implement observability and monitoring for AI systems in production
- Follow security, compliance, and responsible AI best practices
- Partner with product, data engineering, and infrastructure teams
- Help identify high-impact AI use cases within portfolio companies
- Support integration of shared AI components into business applications
- Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, or machine learning (more for senior roles)
- Experience building and deploying production software systems
- Strong programming skills in Python (experience in additional languages is a plus)
- Familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)
- Understanding of modern AI architectures, including LLM-based systems
- Experience working with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience with fine tuning, experimentation, etc
- Rapid development using AI tools
- Agent frameworks and orchestration tools
- Distributed systems or microservices architecture
- Model monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- Experience building reusable libraries or shared infrastructure
- Exposure to SaaS products or enterprise software environments
- Background in optimizing models for performance and cost