Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in New York, USA

Looking for a machine learning engineer job in New York? Choose from 51 open roles at 19 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

51 Open roles
19 Companies hiring
โ€” Average salary

What do Machine learning engineers in New York work on?

The roles on this page centre on designing, building, and shipping machine learning models into production environments. Most involve constructing and maintaining data pipelines, optimising models for scale, and collaborating with product and data-science teams inside Agile structures. Several postings emphasise infrastructure work โ€” deployment pipelines, on-call operations, and change management โ€” rather than research alone. Anthropic's Staff+ role is particularly infrastructure-focused, requiring ownership of safety-classifier deployment across multiple cloud platforms. Capital One's postings โ€” such as the Lead ML Engineer (Python, AWS, SQL, GenAI) and the IFX Lead โ€” focus on enterprise AI tools, production performance, and architectural decision-making. The Senior Lead role adds explicit team leadership alongside model development. Across the sample, seniority requirements are notably high, with most titles carrying lead or staff designations and experience thresholds of six to eight years being common.

Skills and experience employers ask for

Python is the most widely mentioned skill across the full set of postings, followed by model evaluation, PyTorch, and AWS. Cloud coverage splits across AWS, GCP, and Azure, so familiarity with more than one provider appears useful. LLMs and agent-based patterns appear in roughly a third of postings. These counts reflect mentions in job descriptions across all postings โ€” they indicate frequency, not that every role requires every skill.

Python 71%
Evaluation 51%
PyTorch 47%
AWS 39%
LLMs 35%
GCP 33%
Spark 33%
A/B testing 33%
Master's degree 31%
TensorFlow 27%
Agents 27%
Azure 25%
Java 25%
Reinforcement learning 18%

New York office, hybrid or remote?

Most postings in this set specify on-site work in New York. A smaller portion โ€” roughly equal in count โ€” are listed as hybrid or fully remote. No postings have an unknown work mode, so the split is clear for each listing individually. That said, some remote-listed roles may still expect occasional travel or be tied to specific time zones; the individual postings should be checked for any such conditions. Candidates who need full flexibility should filter specifically for the remote listings rather than assuming hybrid arrangements offer equivalent flexibility.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Check seniority and experience fit Most roles on this page carry lead or staff-level titles with multi-year experience requirements stated explicitly. Confirm the years of experience asked for in each posting before applying, as thresholds vary between six and eight or more years depending on the level.
  2. Review the cloud and framework stack Postings reference AWS, GCP, and Azure alongside frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, and many mention LLMs or agents. Cross-reference the specific stack listed in each job description against your own experience, since not every posting covers the same combination.
  3. Note degree and eligibility requirements A number of postings explicitly mention a bachelor's or master's degree as a requirement. Check each posting individually for any stated educational criteria, visa sponsorship details, or eligibility restrictions, as these are not uniform across the set.
  4. Apply through the employer's own system Clicking through each listing will take you to the relevant application route. For employers such as Capital One or Anthropic, applications typically go through their own careers portal, so have your CV and any required materials ready in the format each platform accepts.

Questions about Machine Learning Engineer jobs in New York

None of the postings on this page include an advertised pay range in the structured data. One sample summary for a Capital One Senior Lead role mentions a figure in the description text, but this cannot be confirmed as current or representative of all postings. Check each individual listing for any compensation information.

The postings on this page come from employers including Capital One, Spotify, Waymo, Amazon, Anthropic, Point72, Gusto, and Sigma Computing, among others. The full employer list is shown alongside this text.

A portion of the postings on this page are listed as remote and a roughly equal portion as hybrid; the majority specify on-site work in New York. Each listing states its work mode, so you can filter or check individually based on your preference.

A notable share of postings mention a master's or bachelor's degree in their descriptions, but this is not universal across the set. Degree requirements vary by posting and employer, so check each listing's stated criteria directly.

The majority of postings carry lead, staff, or senior designations. Where experience is stated in the sample summaries, thresholds of six to eight or more years are common. A smaller portion of postings do not specify a seniority level, and a few director or manager-level roles also appear in the set.

Jobs checked 11 hours ago. ยท Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.