About the job
Join Afresh, the forefront AI innovator in the fresh food sector, collaborating with major retailers like Albertsons, Wakefern, Meijer, and Stater Bros to streamline the ordering of billions of dollars worth of fresh food across over 12,000 grocery departments nationwide.
After achieving an impressive 70% growth in 2025, we have expanded our platform to encompass all fresh departments, introduced our full store suite, and launched DC Fresh Buying.
We are dedicated to eliminating food waste and ensuring fresh food is accessible to everyone. In 2025 alone, our software contributed to the saving of 200 million pounds of food waste. If you are seeking a role where your contributions lead to significant impact and social good, this is the ideal opportunity to join our team that is shaping the future of fresh food.
The ML Platform Engineering team at Afresh is tasked with creating and sustaining the foundational infrastructure and tools that drive our machine learning and applied science solutions. We develop the shared components and services that empower our teams to design, deploy, and scale robust ML models. This encompasses a high-performance data API, customizable featurization, dependable forecasting systems, advanced optimization engines, and scalable training pipelines, along with deep experimentation capabilities. As our product offerings and customer base grow, so does the complexity and scale of our platform's requirements, adeptly managing predictions and simulations across various timeframes (hours, days, weeks), intricate data hierarchies (pallets on trucks, shelves of produce in stores, pieces of fruit in bowls), and limitless configuration options (average shelf fullness, backroom loads, truck capacities).
About the Role
As a Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform Engineering team, you play a pivotal role in enhancing our core ML platform's performance, reliability, and scalability. You will focus on the essential infrastructure that directly facilitates the innovation and impact of Afresh's Machine Learning and Applied Science teams. Your efforts will empower our product suite, including our flagship Prediction Engine, which informs replenishment decisions for over 15% of all produce sold in the United States.
What You Will Accomplish
- In your first 3 months, you might deliver a feature that generalizes model configuration, enables no-code model deployments for our various ML solutions, or significantly enhances integration testing across our ML systems.
- By the end of your first 6 months, you will have taken ownership of implementing major scalability improvements and additions to our core systems.
