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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # ML Engineer - **Company:** NOX METALS INC. - **Location:** Detroit, MI, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Training Data, Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Design of User Interfaces, Monitoring of Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Routing, Open Source Technology, Tensorflow, Software Deployment, Systems Integration, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Scripting, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Production Code, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** August 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/ml-engineer-detroit-mi--eb3c4cff-4e53-4cda-9071-04eb5e1aeb1f ## About the Role * 5+ years of ML engineering experience shipping production models to real users * Deep technical foundation across applied ML, foundation models or novel architectures, and production deployment * Strong in Python, modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or comparable), and the surrounding tooling * Comfortable shipping production code, you build the API, the integration, and the UI when that is what the job needs * Fluent in MLOps, model monitoring, retraining, and the unglamorous work of keeping models alive in production * Experienced collecting, labeling, and structuring training data from messy real-world systems * Cracked with AI tools, modern frameworks, and data, you move 10x faster than engineers who do not * A builder at heart, you would rather ship a working v1 today than ship a perfect v3 next month * High attention to quality, every model, every dataset, every deployment * Always thinking about how to make systems better, you do not accept "this is how we have always done it" * Absolutely customer obsessed, every model eventually shows up as a part on a customer's dock * User obsessed, you sit with the operator, the scheduler, the buyer, you watch them work, and you build models they actually trust * A team player with a good attitude, you make the team better for everyone around you * Someone who takes ownership, if it is in production, it is your responsibility * Precise under pressure and reliable * Organized and detail oriented * Committed to safety, you follow every protocol, wear your PPE, and never cut corners that put people at risk * High agency, you handle big items alone and ask for help when needed * Low ego, you walk the floor, you talk to operators, you do the unglamorous work because it needs to get done * Not afraid to work outside normal hours when America demands it * Never says "that's not my job" Nice to have: * Experience building ML for manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, or industrial environments * Strong vision and CV background, cert OCR, dimensional inspection, defect detection * Strong optimization and operations research background, nesting, scheduling, routing * Strong NLP and LLM background, structured extraction, agentic workflows, applied retrieval * Experience integrating with hardware, PLCs, CNC controllers, or shop floor systems * Open source work, published research, or a portfolio of things you have built This role is full time, in person in Detroit. 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