Machine Learning Engineer V

About This Role

Avalara's Content Engineering platform supports compliance content that helps customers manage complex obligations across jurisdictions and product lines. We are modernizing the compliance content lifecycle by building agentic, scalable, reliable, cloud-native systems designed to make it faster and easier to onboard, validate, enrich, and deliver new content types.

Your Impact

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade agentic applications and machine learning systems that integrate into Avalara's products, platforms, and internal workflows in India.
• Own complex AI systems from architecture through production, including full-stack application integration, backend services, agent orchestration, model evaluation, deployment, observability, support, and ongoing improvement.

Your Responsibilities

You will lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise-grade agentic applications integrating with Avalara products. You will build end-to-end AI-enabled systems including backend services, APIs, data access patterns, agent orchestration, retrieval, tool integration, user-facing components, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.

Design reusable platform capabilities and cloud-native services to improve the compliance content lifecycle. Make architecture decisions that enhance scalability, reliability, resiliency, observability, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency at scale.

Tech Stack & Skills

• B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering with 9+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, generative AI, enterprise application development, or production AI systems.
• Experience building scalable, distributed production systems using cloud-native architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong proficiency in Python and full-stack engineering across backend services, relational databases, modern web technologies, and authentication.
• Hands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, prompt design, LLMs, agent tool-use patterns, and small language models.

Culture & Benefits

Avalara is an AI-first company where technology embeds into our workflows. We offer a great compensation package including paid time off, parental leave, bonuses, private medical insurance, and more. Join us to be part of every transaction in the world.