Burq, Inc.

Staff AI/ML Engineer

Burq, Inc.
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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship production multi-agent AI systems, copilots, routing workflows, and specialized agents.
  • Automate operational work across onboarding, support, exceptions, and document/data understanding.
  • Build forecasting, prediction, matching, allocation, optimization, and reliability-scoring models for operational decisions.
  • Create learning loops, data and evaluation infrastructure, and instrumentation connecting decisions to outcomes.
  • Own evaluation, tracing, observability, guardrails, safe rollout, and reliability for complex AI workflows.
  • Make build-versus-model-versus-agent-versus-rules decisions based on measurable outcomes.
  • Advance the prototyping-to-production pipeline and mentor engineers as the AI team grows.

Requirements

  • Experience shipping production AI/ML systems at scale and managing tradeoffs involving edge cases, quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Depth in generative or agentic AI, including multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling, RAG, structured outputs, and modern agent frameworks and providers.
  • Working fluency in applied ML and decision intelligence, including forecasting, optimization, matching/allocation, ranking, or prediction models.
  • Ability to design evaluations tied to business outcomes, including offline and online evaluation, safe rollout, and drift monitoring.
  • Strong hands-on Python, modern API and service development, and ML-systems and architecture skills.
  • Experience building AI systems for operationally complex or high-stakes environments.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, make decisions quickly, and lead technical work without heavy process.
  • Preferred experience in logistics, supply chain, transportation, marketplaces, mobility, fulfillment, operations research, optimization, reinforcement learning, bandits, multimodal or document understanding, computer-use, browser automation, real-time or streaming systems, feature stores, production MLOps, patents, publications, or founding-engineer work.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, stock options, and performance-based bonuses.
  • Fully remote role open to candidates in the United States and Canada, with a few in-person offsites throughout the year.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance.

Tech Stack

FastAPIPython
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About Burq, Inc.

51-200 employees
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