Staff Machine Learning Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At Evolve, we’re on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountability—working together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests. Whether solving big challenges, delivering outstanding results, or celebrating wins, we approach every day with purpose and passion. If you’re ready to join a mission-driven company where every teammate has the opportunity to thrive, Evolve might just be the place for you.

🏢 About Evolve

Evolve's Data Product team builds data and machine-learning products that improve owner acquisition and retention, pricing, revenue performance, and how teams make decisions. We're hiring a hands-on Staff Machine Learning Engineer with applied data science depth to build and own the highest-impact ML systems across that portfolio.

🎯 The Role

You'll turn ambiguous opportunities into durable production systems: frame the problem and success measures, develop and validate models, build the pipelines and inference patterns needed to run them, integrate them into products or workflows, and measure adoption and business impact. You'll also contribute directly to our economic and pricing work, including forecasting, demand and price-elasticity estimation, causal measurement, and optimization.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and hands-on delivery of one or two prioritized applied ML initiatives at a time.
• Translate business opportunities into clear decision frameworks, technical approaches, success measures, and plans for adoption and impact evaluation.
• Build and operate ML systems end to end, including data and feature pipelines, training and evaluation, batch or online inference, deployment, monitoring, failure handling, and iteration.
• Contribute directly to forecasting, demand and price-elasticity estimation, causal measurement, and optimization work that supports pricing and revenue decisions.
• Design and analyze experiments and quasi-experiments to evaluate product, model, and policy changes.
• Establish reusable standards for testing, reproducibility, versioning, observability, documentation, and responsible model operation; review designs and code across the team.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Revenue Management, and other business owners to make technical tradeoffs and integrate models into products and operating workflows.
• Mentor data scientists, raise the team's technical judgment, and create leverage beyond your own projects while remaining hands-on.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years applying machine learning, data science, statistics, or econometrics to consequential business problems.
• Evidence of Staff-level scope: you have led ambiguous, cross-functional ML or DS work from idea through sustained production use, influenced technical direction across multiple teams or at least 2–3 significant projects, and created durable technical leverage for other contributors.
• Expert-level Python and SQL skills, including the ability to design, write, test, and maintain production-quality code while working effectively with large and complex datasets.
• Expert-level applied modeling and model-evaluation judgment, including selecting appropriate modeling approaches, assessing tradeoffs and limitations, validating model performance, and determining when simpler or more sophisticated methods are appropriate.
• Experience owning production ML systems end to end, including deployment or scoring, monitoring, failure handling, operational support, and iteration after launch.
• Hands-on experience with modern data and ML infrastructure such as Snowflake, dbt, cloud orchestration, and practical MLOps or model-governance patterns, or comparable technologies and architectures.
• Strong applied-statistics judgment, including experimentation or causal-inference fundamentals and the ability to contribute meaningfully to economic, forecasting, or optimization work.
• Comfortable working in Git-based development environments with strong software-engineering practices, including code review, automated testing, CI/CD, versioning, and safe production deployment.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and communicate tradeoffs clearly to technical, product, business, and executive audiences.
• A self-directed, collaborative working style: you can prioritize across a broad problem space, receive and give direct feedback, influence without formal authority, and remain hands-on in a lean, remote team.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• An advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through applied work.
• Demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, revenue management, price-elasticity estimation, econometrics, causal inference, or optimization.
• Marketplace, travel, hospitality, or another domain where models influence high-frequency operating decisions.
• NLP, LLM, voice, or other unstructured-data products.

🎁 Benefits

Annual base salary range: $180,000–$195,000, depending on relevant experience. This role is also eligible for equity and a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Financial Wellness: Industry-competitive pay, equity in the company, and a 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match.

Family Support: 16-18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus infertility coverage.

Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, with 100% employer-paid dental and vision for individual coverage, a low-cost medical option, 10 free mental health visits, and pet insurance.

Time to Recharge: Generous PTO, RTO (for full-time exempt employees), sick leave, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what matters most to you.

Travel Perks: Annual Evolve travel credit after one year and discounts on stays at all Evolve properties.

Growth Opportunities: World-class onboarding programs, learning, and development resources to help you grow your impact.

Connection: Employee Resource Groups celebrating our diverse communities at Evolve.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

All Evolve team members must live in one of our approved locations by their first day. We can hire from anywhere in the U.S. except D.C. and Hawaii. Some positions may also have restrictions based on compensation in the following states: California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington. If you live in Colorado, you can work remotely anywhere in the state, at our downtown Denver office, or a hybrid of both! If you're planning to move soon, please let us know, and we'll be happy to review your application again.