Machine Learning Engineer

about 4 hours ago

Remote, United StatesMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

Develop and improve NLP systems and language model-powered experiences.
Fine-tune and optimize open-source and proprietary language models for domain-specific use cases.
Evaluate model performance and identify opportunities for quality improvements.
Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, reliability, and business impact.
Build automated testing pipelines to identify regressions, quality drops, hallucinations, and failure modes.
Develop metrics and monitoring systems to continuously assess model performance in production.
Design and implement guardrails that improve model reliability, safety, and consistency.
Build systems to detect unsafe outputs, prompt injection attempts, abuse patterns, and fraud-related behaviors.
Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure AI systems behave predictably and responsibly.
Optimize inference performance through quantization, distillation, batching, and model serving improvements.
Deploy and maintain production-grade ML systems running on GPU infrastructure.
Improve latency, scalability, and operational efficiency of LLM-powered applications.
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to identify opportunities where AI can improve user experiences.
Translate business requirements into scalable ML solutions.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

3+ years of industry experience building machine learning systems.
Strong Python programming skills.
Experience working with NLP and Large Language Models.
Experience with PyTorch (preferred) or TensorFlow.
Strong understanding of deep learning fundamentals, transformers, embeddings, and modern NLP architectures.
Experience evaluating machine learning models and designing quality measurement frameworks.
Experience fine-tuning language models for production use cases.
Familiarity with model serving, inference optimization, and deployment workflows.
Experience working with SQL and large-scale datasets.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Remote work with regular in-person bonding experiences sponsored by the company.
Competitive compensation.
Holistic perks program (including free therapy, employee wellness, and more).
Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage.
401k benefits with employer matching contribution.
The chance to build something that changes lives.
Any piece of hardware or software that will make you happy and productive.
An awesome community of co-workers.