Raydar
Machine Learning Engineer
$220K–$300K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
About the job
Build and operate evaluation systems and simulations to measure changing machine-learning model behavior and guide concrete improvements.
What you'll do
- Define and maintain model evaluation metrics and success criteria.
- Build evaluation pipelines for data handling, labeling, versioning, reruns, and automated judging.
- Analyze model traces and results, create simulated test environments, and deliver findings and proposed fixes.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, building, and running complex evaluations or simulators for reinforcement learning post-training, such as LLM-as-judge setups, RL environments, or simulations.
- Peer-reviewed research at leading machine learning venues or independently released open-source projects of similar caliber.
- Production-quality Python, including testing, maintenance, and a regular release cadence.
- Working knowledge of PyTorch.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience creating artificial test agents or mock user populations to assess or tune language models.
- Advanced study in a numerate discipline; machine-learning research open-source contributions; personalization, memory, or identity modeling for language models; or data pipeline tooling and SQL.
Pay
$220K - $300K (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, SQL
AI focus
Evaluate and improve machine-learning models, including reinforcement learning post-training and language models, using automated judging and simulated users or environments.
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