Staff Machine Learning Engineer

What you'll do

• Set ML strategy and turn ambiguous business and research goals into production-ready systems.
• Lead difficult modeling work, establish evaluation and data-quality standards, and integrate research into production systems.
• Mentor ML engineers and partner with Product, Engineering, and legal experts on technical direction.

What they ask for

• 7+ years of hands-on ML engineering experience, with multiple models shipped and running in production.
• Deep expertise in ML and NLP, including LLMs, and a track record of solving difficult modeling problems.
• High proficiency in Python and strong command of modern ML/NLP frameworks.
• Experience setting technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and partnering directly with Product and Engineering leadership.

Nice to have

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience with document understanding or LLM fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF/RLVR.

Pay

$212K - $301K (base salary; currency not stated)

Tools

Python, ML, NLP, LLMs, LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, RLVR

AI focus

Build and lead production ML systems for legal and medical data, including complex reasoning, long-context and multi-document understanding, fine-tuning, retrieval, evaluation, and reducing hallucinations.