Profound

AI/ML Engineer

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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, content briefs, outlines, drafts, revision loops, and publish-ready assets.
  • Develop brand- and channel-aligned prompt and template libraries with retrieval for evidence-grounded generation and citations.
  • Create evaluation frameworks covering factuality, coverage, tone, safety, and originality, including rubric-based LLM evaluations, human review, and red teaming.
  • Instrument content performance across AEO and SEO visibility, engagement, and conversion, and run experiments to improve quality, cost, and latency.
  • Transform large text datasets into production features and signals that support 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 experiments tied to customer-facing KPIs.

Requirements

  • Proven experience shipping machine learning systems in production at scale, particularly with large text datasets.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM content systems using prompting, templating, retrieval or RAG, guardrails, and evaluations.
  • Fluency in SQL and strong Python skills with modern machine learning tooling.
  • Ability to design offline and online evaluations and monitoring using machine learning and generation quality metrics.
  • Ability to develop innovative solutions when off-the-shelf tools do not fit the problem.
  • Experience collaborating in cross-functional, high-performance teams.
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical partners.
  • Comfort with ownership, autonomy, responsibility, and a fast-paced environment.
  • Interest in shaping product analytics, usage measurement, and product decision-making.

Benefits

  • On-site work in the NYC or San Francisco office
  • Equity and a full range of benefits and perks
Profound

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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