Principal Machine Learning Scientist

Principal Machine Learning Scientist

Preferred Location : Seattle, WA (Hybrid : 1-2 days / week in office).

Open to remote for the right candidate

About Us

At RPI / Blurb, we are transforming how products are created, produced, and delivered worldwide. Every day, our cloud-based platform powers millions of personalized, on-demand items that reach customers with speed, quality, and sustainability. We partner with leading brands, publishers, and creative platforms, including Blurb, our consumer-facing self-publishing brand, to bring ideas to life at global scale. By combining innovative technology with a distributed manufacturing network, RPI / Blurb is reimagining the future of personalized production.

The Role

Reporting to the VP of Product & Design , the Principal Machine Learning Scientist will architect, research, and deploy advanced ML models to elevate creative user experiences and drive operational efficiency across our manufacturing and production platforms.

In our agile, startup environment, you'll have the ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, working directly with the executive team, senior leaders, senior technical experts and cross functional teams, while putting your expertise into action from initial prototyping through product integration and large-scale deployment. Your contributions will directly shape the technical foundation of our platform and influence RPI / Blurb's overall trajectory, offering exceptional visibility and growth opportunities.

Core Responsibilities

• Set and drive the technical roadmap for machine learning across Blurb / RPI's creation tools and manufacturing systems, always adapting to new challenges and needs in a dynamic environment.
• Own projects from ideation through production-researching, designing, and implementing advanced ML models for creative automation, personalization, automated quality inspection, predictive maintenance, and process optimization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and company leadership, influencing strategy and culture as a trusted expert and thought partner.
• Innovate rapidly, prototyping and iterating on ML solutions that bridge creative tools and industrial operations, and help establish best practices for future scale.
• Architect end-to-end ML pipelines, integrating AutoML, reinforcement learning, and MLOps to ensure scalable, sustainable impact.
• Conduct groundbreaking research in generative AI, computer vision, and predictive analytics, publishing new methods and results when possible.
• As an individual contributor, provide technical expertise, guidance, and mentorship without direct reports-empowering others through strong collaboration.
• Represent Blurb / RPI in external AI forums, conferences, and partnerships, articulating our mission, ambition, and technical innovation.
• Monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve deployed models, delivering actionable, data-driven change company-wide.

Qualifications

Preferred Experience

Impact Areas

Work Arrangement & Travel

Apply now to join our dynamic and innovative company!