Base Salary
$207k - $244k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, monitor, and test production ML models and AI services.
- Use LLM APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling, fine-tuning, classical models, and rules to build production systems.
- Write clean, testable production software, APIs, monitoring, and integration code.
- Partner with Product Engineering, Product, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into ML solutions and define API contracts.
- Build evaluation frameworks, run experiments, and iterate on model and system performance.
- Automate processes, build agentic workflows, and contribute reusable skills and context to Checkr’s agentic platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent depth from experience.
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years building ML systems that run in production.
- Strong Python fluency and ability to write clean, testable, well-structured object-oriented code.
- Hands-on experience using LLM APIs in production, including prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling, cost management, and evaluation.
- Experience building and maintaining APIs, working with CI/CD pipelines, and shipping code used by other engineers.
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows, LLMs, code-generation tools, or agentic systems in production or operational contexts.
- Preferred experience with MLOps platforms such as MLflow, SageMaker, or Vertex; document processing, OCR, or information extraction; PySpark or large-scale data processing; Ruby; compliance-sensitive domains; and dbt, Snowflake, or modern ELT tools.
- Ability to communicate clearly with non-ML partners, operate with urgency through ambiguity, and take ownership of meaningful outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive cash and equity compensation with opportunity for advancement.
- Learning and development allowance.
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
- Flexible PTO policy and monthly wellness stipend.
- Hybrid in-office arrangement with at least three days per week at a Checkr hub; hubs include Denver, San Francisco, Nashville, and Santiago.
- In-office perks include lunch five times per week, commuter stipend, snacks and beverages, and possible relocation stipend.
Tech Stack
Categories
H1B sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
Checkr’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.
H1B petition approvals by fiscal year
- FY 2026 · through Q25
1 initial/new employment approvals · 2 changes of employer
- FY 202511
2 initial/new employment approvals · 4 changes of employer
- FY 202411
2 initial/new employment approvals · 4 changes of employer
Counts are petitions, including continuing employment and amendments, rather than unique hires. Source: USCIS
Job fields receiving H1B certifications
Partial fiscal year, through Q3
- Software Developers4 · 57%
- Marketing Managers2 · 29%
- Computer and Information Systems Managers1 · 14%
Job fields come from government occupation codes, rather than internal departments. Counts are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals or unique hires. Withdrawn and denied cases are excluded.
Source: US Department of LaborMatched government employer: CHECKR INC
About Checkr
Checkr is the AI verification platform for high-stakes decisions. Checkr AI decodes messy, fragmented, hard-to-verify information about people, and delivers clear answers about a person's identity, background, and credentials. Trusted by more than 140,000 customers globally across employment, mortgage, and tenant verifications, Checkr helps businesses and individuals make more confident decisions. Checkr has offices in San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO; and Santiago, Chile.