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Base Pay Range
$150,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr
Machine Learning Engineer
Our client is a well-funded AI infrastructure startup building production ML systems for customers ranging from early-stage AI companies to Fortune 10 enterprises. 7x YOY revenue growth with strong product-market fit in their space.
About the Role
We're seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop and deploy production vision models that extract structured data from complex inputs. You'll work directly with founders to train state-of-the-art models, build evaluation pipelines, and ship ML systems that power their core product serving hundreds of enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Train, fine-tune, and deploy computer vision and vision-language models at scale
- Design and implement experiments to improve model accuracy on complex inputs
- Build robust data pipelines and evaluation frameworks to measure model performance
- Integrate ML models into production systems serving millions of requests monthly
- Collaborate directly with customers to understand requirements and iterate on model capabilities
- Debug production issues and optimize model latency/throughput
- Stay current with latest ML research and apply novel techniques to real-world problems
Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related field (M.S. a plus)
- 2+ years training, fine-tuning, and evaluating ML models in production environments
- Strong Python programming skills with production-quality code standards
- Deep experience with computer vision models and vision-language models (VLMs)
- Proven ability to ship ML features end-to-end, from experimentation to production
- Quantitative mindset with strong debugging and experimentation skills
- Comfortable building internal tools (e.g., Streamlit apps) to accelerate workflows
Preferred Skills
- Prior startup experience or early-stage product development
- Track record of keeping up with latest ML/AI research and applying it practically
- Experience with LLM integration and prompt engineering
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Full-time
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting and Software Development
Location and Salary
San Francisco, CA $160,000.00-$385,000.00 2 weeks ago