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Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Portland, OR

Machine learning engineers take models from notebook to production — building training pipelines, serving infrastructure, and monitoring so ML systems keep working after launch.

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PROJECT - Data Engineer II

Deloitte · Portland, OR
$71.3k - $140.6k

Position Summary Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team works to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make... ...request handlingExperience with DockerExperience supporting machine learning workflowsExp…

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Senior Data Engineer

Columbia Sportswear Company · Portland, OR

This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.Columbia Sportswear Company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Portland, OR responsible for designing and implementing Kimball-style dimension…

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Senior Sediment Remediation Engineer

Arcadis · Portland, OR
$94.94k - $185.62k

: ANA United StatesWork Type: HybridDate Posted: 2026-08-28Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.We are more than 34,000…

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Electrical Engineer, PE

Barry-Wehmiller · Portland, OR
$110k - $150k

About Us:BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commerci…

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Electrical Engineer *

HDR · Portland, OR

difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.HDR Engineering is currently seeking an E…

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Mechanical Engineer *

HDR · Portland, OR

difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.HDR Engineering is currently seeking a Me…

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Trenchless Engineer

HDR · Portland, OR

our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your... ...community, but around the world. HDR is looking for a Trenchless Engineer to join…

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our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your... ...centers to modernizing transmission systems, our industry-recognized engineers an…

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Senior Electrical Engineer

Curtiss-Wright · Portland, OR
$94.7k - $110k

Senior Electrical EngineerWe’re looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join Curtiss-Wright Williams Controls. As a Senior... ...Employer Match and Profit Sharing I Health and Wellness Benefits I Learning and Develop…

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Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies · Beaverton, OR · Full-time
$105k - $143k

Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer – Remote Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This…

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What machine learning engineers earn in Portland

Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives

ExperienceHourlyAnnual, full-time
Entry level $48–$66 $99k–$138k
Mid level $66–$90 $138k–$187k
Senior $88–$122 $182k–$253k

Adjusted for the Portland market from national ranges.

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What employers ask for

The skills these listings keep naming

Python and software engineeringPyTorch or TensorFlowML fundamentals and evaluationModel serving and APIsMLOps (tracking, registries, CI)Docker and KubernetesData pipelines and feature storesLLM fine-tuning and RAG (a plus)Monitoring and drift detection
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Interview questions worth rehearsing

With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for

Walk me through taking a model from prototype to production.

Cover data pipelines, training reproducibility, serving, and monitoring. Emphasize that the model is a small part of the system — that framing is the job.

How do you monitor a model in production?

Discuss input drift, prediction distributions, delayed labels, and business metrics — plus what triggers retraining. Mention that silent degradation is the default failure mode.

How would you reduce inference latency or cost for a large model?

Options include distillation, quantization, batching, caching, and smaller models. Frame it as measuring first, then choosing the cheapest acceptable quality tradeoff.

Tell me about a time a model failed in production. What happened?

A real story about skew, drift, or a data bug — with detection and prevention — is far more convincing than claiming smooth deployments.

How do you evaluate a model beyond accuracy?

Talk about the metric matching the business cost of errors, slicing by segment, and offline-online gaps. Naming a case where accuracy misled is a strong touch.

When would you fine-tune an LLM versus use retrieval or prompting?

Start cheap: prompting, then RAG for knowledge, fine-tuning for behavior and format. Cost and maintenance burden should drive the answer.

How do you make training reproducible?

Version code, data, and config; track experiments; pin environments. This is engineering discipline applied to ML, which is exactly the role.

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Resume tips that move the needle

For machine learning engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here

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Center bullets on production systems: models served, request volume, latency, and the business metric they moved.

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Show software engineering credentials explicitly — testing, CI, code review — since MLE hiring filters hardest on engineering rigor.

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Name the MLOps tooling you have run (MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow, vector databases) as these are common screens.

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Include LLM work with specifics — fine-tuning, RAG, evaluation — if you have it; vague 'GenAI experience' claims read poorly.

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Distinguish your role on shared projects: built the serving layer, owned the pipeline, or trained the model.

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Where this role goes

Typical progression

01 ML Engineer
02 Senior ML Engineer
03 Staff ML Engineer
04 ML Platform Lead
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