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Remote ML Engineer jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams hiring for roles in tech, finance, and healthcare. Employers hiring remote ml engineers right now include CVS Health, Alvarez & Marsal, and Netflix. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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ABOUT GITHUB
GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
LOCATIONS
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
GitHub is changing the way the world builds software and we want you to help build and secure GitHub. We're looking for an experienced machine learning engineer to help design, build and deploy agentic solutions, and to conduct ad-hoc analysis, as you help protect the home of all developers.
You will be responsible for identifying new trends relating to safety, fraud and abuse on GitHub, building agentic solutions to detect this abuse at scale, identifying vulnerabilities in GitHub that lead to abuse and helping to measure the impact of our work to safeguard the platform. At GitHub, Safety and Integrity's mission is to ensure GitHub and our users' safety through fighting malware, spam and fraud, monitoring for fake accounts, countering inauthentic content, battling crypto mining, and other core areas. You will be involved in collaborations across teams within GitHub including with Copilot and setting the standard for effective and responsible use of AI for moderation and trust and safety purposes, ensuring fraud is countered, content is moderated, users are kept safe and the open-source community can flourish.
If you have a strong foundation in large language models, solid software engineering instincts, a working knowledge of online platform trust and safety issues, and an empathetic approach to collaborating with a diverse team from entry-level associates to seasoned senior contributors, then this might be the gig for you.
WHAT WE VALUE
Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.
Empathy: We believe in putting people first.
Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.
Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.
* Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.
Responsibilities
Design, build and deploy agentic solutions that leverage large language models to detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security threats at scale — applying LLMs to problems such as content classification and multi-step agentic investigation.
Build well-engineered, production-grade systems that run reliably against high-volume event streams, making effective use of AI coding assistants to accelerate and improve your work.
Build and operate scalable ML systems on cloud platforms (such as Azure AI Foundry) for training, deploying, and serving models and agentic solutions in production.
Evaluate and improve existing models and agentic solutions using offline evaluations (including tool-use loops and LLM-as-judge evaluation), performance metrics, and feedback from operational deployments.
Identify vulnerabilities in products that lead to abuse, and provide consultation to product teams reviewing new features.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including data scientists, software engineers, product managers and content moderators to integrate agentic solutions into production systems.
* Document the systems you help build and support the technical growth of your peers.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications
* 4+ years experience in machine learning, or related field
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, or related field AND 2+ years experience in machine learning, or related field
+ OR Master's Degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Software Development, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, or related field
+ OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong understanding of large language models — how they work — and hands-on experience applying them at scale, ideally for classification, agentic workflows, or agents.
Strong software engineering skills, including experience building with AI coding assistants.
Experience designing or evaluating agentic systems (tool-use loops, multi-step workflows, or LLM-as-judge evaluation).
Hands-on experience building and operating classification or detection systems at scale, including handling imbalanced data and precision/recall tradeoffs.
Experience in Trust and Safety, National Security or fighting spam, malware, fraud, and threat actor activity at scale.
Experience in responsible AI.
Experience in Safety-by-Design.
Experience with managing user data and privacy.
* Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms (supervised and unsupervised learning, anomaly detection, etc.) and their practical implementation.
COMPENSATION RANGE
The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GITHUB LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
GitHub values
Customer-obsessed
Ship to learn
Growth mindset
Own the outcome
Better together
Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
Model
Coach
* Care
Leadership principles
Create clarity
Generate energy
* Deliver success
WHO WE ARE
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO STATEMENT
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
ABOUT GITHUB
GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
LOCATIONS
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
GitHub is changing the way the world builds software and we want you to help build and secure GitHub. We're looking for an experienced machine learning engineer to help design, build and deploy agentic solutions, and to conduct ad-hoc analysis, as you help protect the home of all developers.
You will be responsible for identifying new trends relating to safety, fraud and abuse on GitHub, building agentic solutions to detect this abuse at scale, identifying vulnerabilities in GitHub that lead to abuse and helping to measure the impact of our work to safeguard the platform. At GitHub, Safety and Integrity's mission is to ensure GitHub and our users' safety through fighting malware, spam and fraud, monitoring for fake accounts, countering inauthentic content, battling crypto mining, and other core areas. You will be involved in collaborations across teams within GitHub including with Copilot and setting the standard for effective and responsible use of AI for moderation and trust and safety purposes, ensuring fraud is countered, content is moderated, users are kept safe and the open-source community can flourish.
If you have a strong foundation in large language models, solid software engineering instincts, a working knowledge of online platform trust and safety issues, and an empathetic approach to collaborating with a diverse team from entry-level associates to seasoned senior contributors, then this might be the gig for you.
WHAT WE VALUE
Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.
Empathy: We believe in putting people first.
Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.
Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.
* Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.
Responsibilities
Design, build and deploy agentic solutions that leverage large language models to detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security threats at scale — applying LLMs to problems such as content classification and multi-step agentic investigation.
Build well-engineered, production-grade systems that run reliably against high-volume event streams, making effective use of AI coding assistants to accelerate and improve your work.
Build and operate scalable ML systems on cloud platforms (such as Azure AI Foundry) for training, deploying, and serving models and agentic solutions in production.
Evaluate and improve existing models and agentic solutions using offline evaluations (including tool-use loops and LLM-as-judge evaluation), performance metrics, and feedback from operational deployments.
Identify vulnerabilities in products that lead to abuse, and provide consultation to product teams reviewing new features.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including data scientists, software engineers, product managers and content moderators to integrate agentic solutions into production systems.
* Document the systems you help build and support the technical growth of your peers.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications
* 4+ years experience in machine learning, or related field
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, or related field AND 2+ years experience in machine learning, or related field
+ OR Master's Degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Software Development, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, or related field
+ OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong understanding of large language models — how they work — and hands-on experience applying them at scale, ideally for classification, agentic workflows, or agents.
Strong software engineering skills, including experience building with AI coding assistants.
Experience designing or evaluating agentic systems (tool-use loops, multi-step workflows, or LLM-as-judge evaluation).
Hands-on experience building and operating classification or detection systems at scale, including handling imbalanced data and precision/recall tradeoffs.
Experience in Trust and Safety, National Security or fighting spam, malware, fraud, and threat actor activity at scale.
Experience in responsible AI.
Experience in Safety-by-Design.
Experience with managing user data and privacy.
* Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms (supervised and unsupervised learning, anomaly detection, etc.) and their practical implementation.
COMPENSATION RANGE
The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GITHUB LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
GitHub values
Customer-obsessed
Ship to learn
Growth mindset
Own the outcome
Better together
Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
Model
Coach
* Care
Leadership principles
Create clarity
Generate energy
* Deliver success
WHO WE ARE
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO STATEMENT
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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Who's Hiring
- CVS Health34
- Alvarez & Marsal26
- Netflix20
- Liberty Mutual Insurance14
- Airbnb12
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software145
- Consulting & Professional Services62
- Healthcare & Medical Services54
- Investment & Asset Management30
- Accounting & Auditing27
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote ML engineer jobs.
- Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Experience building and deploying models in cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with MLOps tools and practices including CI/CD pipelines for model deployment
- Strong foundation in statistics, linear algebra, and machine learning fundamentals
- Experience with data processing tools such as Spark, SQL, or distributed computing platforms
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, statistics, or a related quantitative field
Tips for Your Remote ML Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote ml engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly. Remote postings at in-demand companies often fill fast, so checking frequently and applying promptly matters.
Show async communication in your application
Remote ml engineer teams rely on written documentation and async updates over Slack, Confluence, or Notion. Your cover letter and any take-home assessments should demonstrate that you can explain model decisions, tradeoffs, and experiment results clearly in writing, without a meeting.
Make your ML portfolio remote-readable
Remote employers review your GitHub or portfolio before a call, not during one. Structure your repositories with clear READMEs, reproducible notebooks, and documented results so a hiring manager can follow your thinking independently, without asking follow-up questions.
Prepare for remote-specific technical screens
Remote ml engineer interviews often include a take-home or async coding assessment rather than a live whiteboard. Practice writing clean, well-commented model code you could hand off to a teammate who will read it cold, since that mirrors how distributed teams actually work.
Signal remote-work readiness upfront
Mention specific tools you use for remote collaboration, such as Weights and Biases for experiment tracking, Jira for async project management, or cloud platforms for model deployment. Remote hiring managers want to see that you already operate comfortably in a distributed workflow.
Remote ML Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote ml engineer job?
Target companies that run distributed engineering teams, since those employers already know how to onboard and manage ml engineers remotely. Remote hiring managers screen hard for self-direction, clear async written communication, and hands-on experience with MLflow, DVC, or similar experiment-tracking tools. A public GitHub with documented projects or a portfolio showing model development end-to-end will give you a concrete edge over candidates who only list skills.
Which companies hire remote ml engineers?
Companies hiring remote ml engineers right now include CVS Health, Alvarez & Marsal, and Netflix, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote ml engineer roles are concentrated at remote-first tech firms, AI-native startups, and distributed enterprise teams in sectors like software, fintech, and healthcare.
Can you get a remote ml engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level ml engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot independently without on-site support. Your best path is through AI-native startups and research-oriented companies that value demonstrated ability over tenure. A documented Kaggle competition, an open-source contribution, or a self-built end-to-end ML project hosted publicly shows remote employers you can deliver without hand-holding.
Do you need a degree for remote ml engineer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh demonstrated ML skills, shipped projects, and familiarity with production tooling, such as PyTorch, Kubernetes, or cloud ML platforms, alongside or instead of a formal degree. Roles at research-heavy or enterprise companies tend to prefer a graduate degree, while remote-first startups and product teams often prioritize what you have built and deployed.
Which industries hire the most remote ml engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote ml engineers are Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These industries favor remote ml engineers because their teams are already distributed globally and their data pipelines and model workflows run entirely in cloud environments.
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