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Otter.ai

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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about 1 month ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$278k - $330k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and evolve large-scale SID / ASR / NLP / LLM systems.
  • Lead the design and implementation of training and inference strategies for large language and speech models.
  • Design and improve model architectures and training techniques for speech and language models.
  • Own end-to-end ML system lifecycles from research to production deployment.
  • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to develop scalable systems.
  • Drive system-level improvements in model performance and operational excellence.
  • Set technical direction and best practices for ML infrastructure and workflows.
  • Identify and resolve complex problems in model behavior and data quality.
  • Mentor and elevate other engineers, influencing team standards.
  • Influence applied research and technical roadmaps for production systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 10+ years of experience; PhD preferred.
  • Deep experience building and fine-tuning large language or foundation models.
  • Strong command of modern ML research and ability to evaluate new papers.
  • Extensive experience deploying and operating ML systems in production.
  • Comfortable working with large-scale speech and conversational datasets.
  • Effective at cross-functional collaboration with product and data teams.
  • Ability to lead technical projects independently and make architectural decisions.
  • Interest in agentic systems, tool-use frameworks, or multi-model orchestration.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction beyond immediate team.
  • Experience with personalization or recommendation systems is a plus.

Tech Stack

PyTorch

Categories

AI & MLData Science