Chess.com
Senior ML Engineer
Remote Machine Learning Engineer role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 10, 2026
Eligible countries6 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
AustraliaCanadaGermanyIndiaUSAUnited Kingdom
Role overview
Senior ML Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
Readable role content extracted into sections for faster review.
Details
- Own ML-driven product features, identifying opportunities through to modeling, deployment, experimentation, and impact.
- Partner with Product, Leadership, Growth, and Data Science to determine which problems should (and shouldn’t) be solved with ML, define success metrics, and iterate based on real-world performance.
- Design, build, and ship scalable ML systems, including data pipelines, training workflows, and production model serving infrastructure.
- Prototype rapidly and iterate regularly, developing repeatable evaluation frameworks, running experiments, and improving models based on results
- Shape our ML architecture and MLOps practices, establishing standards for experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining as we scale.
- Drive innovation in Generative AI, exploring how we can best use LLMs and agents to power new user experiences and internal productivity tools.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, mentoring more junior team members, influencing our roadmap, and raising AI/ML literacy across the company.
- 5+ years of demonstrated, hands-on experience building scaled ML systems, training large ML models, or equivalent experience.
- 1+ year of AI engineering experience.
- Strong technical skills and judgment around coding, testing, and building for scale.
- Strong practical ML knowledge, solid knowledge of ML theory, and a working understanding of the AI application stack and lifecycle in the context of foundation models, from evaluation to deployment.
- High sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment.
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
You can learn more about us here:
- https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
- https://www.chess.com/about
Similar roles
Keep a backup shortlist.
Azure, Golang 2 accepted countries
Staff Backend Engineer- Session Replay| USA| RemoteGrafana LabsView role Azure, Golang 2 accepted countries
Staff Backend Engineer- Session Replay| Canada| RemoteGrafana LabsView role CI/CD, Kubernetes 2 accepted countries
Staff Backend Engineer- Grafana Enterprise| US| RemoteGrafana LabsView role CI/CD, Kubernetes 2 accepted countries
Staff Backend Engineer- Grafana Enterprise| Canada| RemoteGrafana LabsView role Stack
Use these tags to compare similar remote roles.
Location eligibility
Candidates should apply only when their profile country is listed here.
Hiring flow
WithMira shows the role, then sends candidates to the company application.
1Check role fit, stack, and location eligibility in WithMira.
2Open the company application page from the tracked apply link.
3Save the role or subscribe for similar opportunities before leaving.