Senior Machine Learning/Data Science Engineer

Calling All Upstarters!

SENIOR MACHINE LEARNING/DATA SCIENCE ENGINEER WANTED!

We are Upstart 13. We are humble, hungry, and competent people who are radically changing the expectation and experience of outsourcing for all participants by challenging barriers that create inequality and by bringing down borders in technology for people everywhere. We’re all about delivering value and doing big things. We have become a game-changer for teams around the world who look to Upstart’s services as a differentiator.

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning/Data Science Engineer in LATAM to develop a first-pass real estate lead scoring model. You’ll own the full ML lifecycle—from data extraction to deploying a retrainable model—helping the business prioritize high-intent real estate leads.

Responsibilities:

• Data Engineering:
  -Extract lead data from data sources (e.g., BigQuery).
  -Clean and engineer features (e.g., lead source, price bands).
  -Build reproducible, version-controlled pipelines.
• Model Development:
  -Conduct AutoML sweeps using Vertex AI or SageMaker.
  -Manually refine and benchmark models on recent leads.
  -Present feature importance and tune thresholds with business stakeholders.
• Delivery & Handoff:
  -Package model artifacts, notebooks, and retraining jobs.
  -Create a clear run-book for future retrains and model extensions.

Qualifications:

Technical skills: 

• 5+ years applying supervised ML on tabular data with Python & SQL.
• Experience with BigQuery and Vertex AI or SageMaker AutoML.
• Strong data engineering hygiene (version control, reproducibility).
• Ability to explain model trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of GCP tools

Soft skills:

• Self-starter who can unblock access and deliver independently.

Bonus skills:

• Experience with lead scoring or conversion models.
• Exposure to real estate or mortgage datasets.
  

Why Upstart13? 

• We put people first at Upstart 13! We believe the world is filled with amazing people and we are willing to go to great lengths to seek out others who share our values to join our cause bringing down borders in technology for people everywhere.
• We develop leaders at Upstart 13, we focus on what matters to do meaningful work, we own our shit, we stay curious, and we understand responsibility leads to giving. We do big things, together!
  

Perks:

• Job type:  Full-time, short-term (3 months), renewable.
  
• Fully remote.
• USD competitive salary.

Are you ready to join our cause? Be sure to ask, “why 13?”