Profound

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning

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1 year ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy NLP models at scale for classification, ranking, clustering, topic extraction, and summarization.
  • Design end-to-end LLM workflows for topic discovery, brief creation, drafting, revision, and publish-ready content generation.
  • Develop brand- and channel-aligned prompt and template libraries with retrieval, evidence grounding, and citations.
  • Create evaluation frameworks for generated content using LLM evaluations, human review, and red teaming.
  • Instrument AEO and SEO content performance and run experiments to improve quality, cost, latency, engagement, and conversion.
  • Transform large text datasets into production features and signals for product insights.
  • Partner with engineering on event instrumentation, data pipelines, data quality, and observability.
  • Collaborate with product, data, and go-to-market teams on success metrics and customer-facing experiments.

Requirements

  • Proven experience shipping production machine learning systems at scale, especially with large text data.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM content systems involving prompting, templating, retrieval or RAG, guardrails, and evaluations.
  • Fluency in SQL and strong Python skills with modern machine learning tooling.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning and generation-quality metrics, including offline and online evaluation and monitoring.
  • Ability to develop innovative solutions when off-the-shelf approaches do not fit.
  • Experience working effectively in cross-functional, high-performance teams and communicating with technical and non-technical partners.
  • Comfort with ownership, autonomy, responsibility, and fast-paced early-stage company environments.
  • Interest in owning product analytics and shaping usage measurement and product decisions.

Benefits

  • Onsite work in the New York City or San Francisco office.
  • Equity and a full range of benefits and perks.
  • Competitive total compensation package.
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About Profound

201-500 employees

Profound builds a SaaS marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands measure and improve how they appear in AI-driven discovery across tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The product delivers real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and optimization insights for search-like AI channels. The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, and is Series C–funded.

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