Staff ML Engineer

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Workplace: RemoteFull-TimeStaff
Salary$205K – $330K + equity
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years of deep applied ML/AI expertise; 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience
Required Skills
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningPrompt EngineeringLLM

Requirements

  • 5+ years of deep applied ML/AI expertise with a track record of shipping production systems.
  • Experience in fraud, abuse, safety, security, or trust domains.
  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Built and owned ML systems including data pipelines, serving, evaluation, and monitoring for customer-facing products.
  • Fluent with modern AI tools and ability to integrate frontier models with traditional ML.
  • Experience with LLM-based systems in production: evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, retrieval, guardrails, and agent frameworks.
  • Familiarity with the agent / MCP ecosystem.
  • Ability to work in early-stage environments with evolving roadmaps and incomplete information.
  • Collaborative and low-ego approach to working across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, train, evaluate, and ship ML systems that power governance and security capabilities, starting with problems like prompt injection detection, behavioral anomaly detection, trust scoring, and policy recommendations.
  • Build the supporting infrastructure: data pipelines, feature stores, model serving, evaluation harnesses, and the feedback loops that make iteration fast.
  • Make pragmatic build-vs-buy calls using frontier models, off-the-shelf tooling, and managed services where appropriate.
  • Set technical direction for the team's ML work, owning the architecture, evaluation methodology, model lifecycle, and shipping standards.
  • Help recruit, mentor, and shape the team as it grows.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for the Agentic Platform and maintain services built.
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