Senior Staff ML Engineer

5 days ago

Palo Alto, CA, USASenior / Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$200k - $247k/yr

Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term technical vision for generative AI across Typeface’s product ecosystem.
Lead architecture and design of scalable ML platforms used across multiple teams.
Drive company-level ML strategy, aligning technical investments with product and business priorities.
Influence and partner with executive leadership, product, and design to shape high-impact initiatives.
Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the ML organization.
Architect and lead development of large-scale generative AI systems.
Define and evolve shared ML infrastructure and platforms for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving.
Drive cross-team initiatives spanning multiple ML systems and product areas.
Establish best practices for ML system evaluation, safety, reliability, and performance at scale.
Identify and incubate 0→1 opportunities in generative AI with high business impact.

12+ years of experience building and scaling machine learning systems, with demonstrated impact at Staff+ level.
Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Proven track record of driving multi-team or company-level technical strategy.
Experience leading large, ambiguous, high-impact initiatives.
Deep expertise in ML systems and infrastructure, including training, evaluation, and inference at scale.
Strong background in Generative AI / LLMs / multimodal systems.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and align cross-functional stakeholders.
Track record of mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering excellence.
Proficiency in Python and systems-level programming (C/C++ or equivalent).
Bonus: Experience building ML platforms used across multiple products or teams.