Engineer 2 - Machine Learning

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Job Summary

Responsible for contributing to the development and deployment of machine learning algorithms. Evaluates accuracy and functionality of machine learning algorithms as a part of a larger team. Contributes to translating application requirements into machine learning problem statements. Analyzes and evaluates solutions both internally generated as well as third party supplied. Contributes to developing ways to use machine learning to solve problems and discover new products, working on a portion of the problem and collaborating with more senior researchers as needed. Works with moderate guidance in own area of knowledge.

Job Description

•Design and validate entropy-based prioritization models to reduce alert fatigue and elevate
critical signals
•Conduct A/B testing, offline validation, and live performance monitoring of ML models
•Build and share clear dashboards, visualizations, and reporting views to support SREs, engineers,
and leadership
•Participate in incident postmortems, providing ML-driven insights and recommendations for
platform improvements
•Collaborate on the design of hybrid ML + rule-based systems to support dynamic correlation and
intelligent alert grouping
•Lead and support innovation efforts including POCs, POVs, and exploration of emerging AI/ML
tools and strategies
•Demonstrate a proactive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity and
learn quickly
•Participate in on-call rotations and provide operational support as needed
Qualifications:
•Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or
a related field
•3+ years of experience building and deploying ML solutions in production environments
•2+ years working with AIOps, observability, orreal-time operations data
•Strong coding skills in Python (including pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow)
•Experience working with SQL, time-series query languages (e.g., PromQL), and data
transformation in pandas or Spark
•Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering fundamentals, or embedding-based retrieval (e.g.,
sentence-transformers, vector DBs)
•Strong grasp of modern ML techniques including gradient boosting (XGBoost/LightGBM),
autoencoders, clustering (e.g., HDBSCAN), and anomaly detection
•Experience managing structured + unstructured data, and building features from logs, alerts,
metrics, and traces
•Familiarity with real-time event processing using tools like Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink
•Strong understanding of model evaluation techniques including precision/recall trade-offs, ROC,
AUC, calibration
•Comfortable working with relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), and time-series
(InfluxDB, Prometheus) databases
•Ability to collaborate effectively with SREs, platform teams, and participate in Agile/DevOps
workflows
•Clear written and verbal communication skills to present findings to technical and non-technical
stakeholders
•Comfortable working across Git, Confluence, JIRA, & collaborative agile environments
Nice to Have:

•Experiencebuilding or contributing to the AIOps platform(e.g., Moogsoft, BigPanda,Datadog,
Aisera, Dynatrace, BMC etc.)
•Experience working in streaming media, OTT platforms, or large-scale consumer services
•Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) and modern cloud-native tooling
•Working experience with Conviva, Touchstream, Harmonic, New Relic, Prometheus, & event-
based alerting tools
•Hands-on experience with LLMs in operational contexts (e.g., classification of alert text, log
summarization, retrieval-augmented generation)
•Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate) and embeddings-based
search for observability data
•Experience using MLflow, SageMaker, or Airflow for ML workflow orchestration
•Knowledge of LangChain, Haystack, RAG pipelines, or prompt templating libraries
•Exposure to MLOps practices (e.g., model monitoring, drift detection, explainability tools like
SHAP or LIME)
•Experience with containerized model deployment using Docker or Kubernetes
•Use of JAX, Hugging Face Transformers, or LLaMA/Claude/Command-R models in
experimentation
•Experience designing APIs in Python or Go to expose models as services
•Cloud proficiency in AWS/GCP, especially for distributed training, storage, or batch inferencing
•Contributions to open-source ML or DevOps communities, or participation in AIOps
research/benchmarking efforts
•Certifications in cloud architecture, ML engineering, or data science specializations

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years