Altana AI
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer
$250K–$295K
Boston, MA +9 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Brooklyn, NY
San Francisco, CA
Washington, D.C.
Boston, MA
Brooklyn, NY
London, England
Remote - International
San Francisco, CA
Washington, D.C. - Experience
- 10+ years building and shipping ML systems in production.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and development of production ML models and agentic systems that analyze global trade data and make real-time risk, classification, compliance, and enforcement decisions.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and build reliable systems spanning trade-data ingestion, document understanding, entity resolution, model inference, and routing.
- Adapt and evaluate models using production outcomes and feedback; build observability, tracing, and evaluation systems to catch regressions.
- Mentor engineers, shape ML hiring and roadmaps, and partner with product, engineering, data science, and customers to deliver capabilities.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building and shipping production ML systems, including recent work on LLM-powered products.
- Deep expertise in PyTorch and the modern Python ML stack; hands-on production LLM application and agentic-system experience.
- Experience adapting or post-training LLMs for production and building rigorous evaluation suites, golden datasets, and LLM-as-judge pipelines.
- Senior Staff-level technical leadership, including setting architecture direction across teams and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-agent systems, hybrid retrieval, vision-language models, multilingual NLP, or LLMOps.
- Experience with AI safety, guardrails, or auditability in regulated or high-stakes domains.
Pay
$250,000 - $295,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas/Polars, Python, Spark, Kubernetes
AI focus
Builds agentic AI systems and LLM-powered products for trade-data analysis; adapts and post-trains models, develops evaluation and feedback loops, and supports real-time risk, classification, and compliance decisions.
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