Engineering & IT · St. Louis, MO

Machine Learning Engineer jobs in St. Louis, MO

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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IT Field Engineer

Moore Computing LLP · Saint Louis, MO

Job Description Job Description Job Summary Our Field Engineers support end-user clients both onsite and by remote support. By... ...technical team, the chosen candidate will accelerate his/her learning path, technical s…

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Technical Services Engineer

Civic Minds · Saint Louis, MO

Position: Technical Services Engineer Location: St. Louis, MO Type: Full-time | On-site Summary: This role focuses... ...drives, and robotics. Responsibilities include learning real-world applications for the use of prod…

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Field Service Engineer

Water Technologies · Saint Louis, MO · Full-time
$42 - $46 per hour

home and work from home 1 week. Essential Responsibilities: ENGINEERING SUPPORT Participate in Model Reviews, Engineering Design... ...mathematical skills, customer service orientation, and proven ability to learn compan…

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GEOINT Data Scientist (TS/SCI)

Xcellent Technology Solutions · Saint Louis, MO · Full-time

Some problems don’t need more data, they need clarity. At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Office of Eurasia, leadership is routinely asked to prioritize, assess risk, and allocate resources against comp…

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Senior Data Scientist

GRVTY · Saint Louis, MO

Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with analysts, engineers, and mission stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions.... ...modern business intelligence tools. Experience applying machine learning or artifi…

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Senior Data Scientist

Tiger Analytics Inc. · Saint Louis, MO

firm. Our consultants bring deep expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI. We are the trusted analytics partner for multiple Fortune... ...business problems using advanced machine learning, data engineering, an…

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Exploitation Specialist / Data Scientist

Sphinx LLC · Saint Louis, MO
$160k - $175k

Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited school in a related discipline - Relevant commercial or federal data science/ engineering certifications - Past GEOINT Experience Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate…

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Data Scientist

Harris-Stowe State University · Saint Louis, MO

SPM, AFNI, FreeSurfer, or BrainVoyager. Experience with spatial and temporal data interpretation in neuroimaging studies. Machine Learning Implementation : Skill in implementing ML algorithms to detect patterns in neurob…

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Senior Field Service Engineer - PLC Systems

Gpac · Saint Louis, MO · Full-time
$45 - $55 per hour

Position Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Field Service Engineer to install, commission, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial material handling and process equipment at customer manufacturing facilities across N…

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What machine learning engineers earn in St. Louis

Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives

ExperienceHourlyAnnual, full-time
Entry level $40–$55 $83k–$115k
Mid level $55–$75 $115k–$156k
Senior $73–$102 $152k–$212k

Adjusted for the St. Louis 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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