Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Innovative Refrigeration Systems is looking to hire a Lead Machine Learning Engineer full-time onsite in Waynesboro, VA. You would be joining our software engineering department to build machine learning models optimizing energy efficiency for heavy industrial refrigeration / cold storage facilities.

Our aim is to create a more sustainable future for our Fortune 1000 clients powering America's food supply chain. This is an extremely rewarding and impactful greenfield initiative with a company uniquely positioned to challenge the status quo.

Responsibilities:

• Building physics-based, reinforcement machine learning models around industrial refrigeration PLC & IoT data to optimize for energy efficiency and temperature safety

• Fine tuning and deploying ML models to our backend platform

• Working closely with our product, energy, and software teams to guide future development of our energy management platform

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree

• Must be a self-starter, with ability to learn from our mechanical engineers and adapt their knowledge of refrigeration and thermodynamics to ML models

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and optimizing ML systems

• Comfortable in cloud infrastructure provider ML environments

• Expert in your ML tools of choice (R, Python, Scikit, Tensorflow, etc)

Bonus Skills:

• Masters or PhD in computer science, mathematics, mechanical or chemical engineering, or any similar/relevant field

• Background (education or otherwise) in any of: energy optimization, predictive maintenance, thermodynamics, heat/mass transfer, industrial refrigeration, or mechanical/chemical engineering

• Prior experience as a software engineer building back-end systems around ML models

Benefits:

• Retirement plan; we match dollar for dollar up to 15%

• Health insurance with 75% of monthly premium covered for employees and their families

• Dental / Vision / Life / Disability / Supplemental insurance

• Competitive vacation and holiday pay

• Employee referral incentives

• Professional development opportunities

About Innovative Refrigeration Systems

We are a vertically integrated market leader in cold storage and industrial refrigeration, providing engineering, controls, construction, service, and software solutions to America's largest food and beverage corporations. Our software team is responsible for multiple industrial software-as-a-service platforms in process safety, environmental health & safety, and energy management.