Raydar
Machine Learning Engineer
$165K–$250K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience; ideally 2+ years in applied machine learning.
About the job
Build backend and machine learning systems for processing and retrieving multimodal data, integrating models into secure production applications, and delivering projects from architecture through release.
What you'll do
- Build backend services, data pipelines, retrieval systems, and inference pipelines.
- Integrate language and vision-language models into production applications and deploy secure, distributed systems.
- Own projects from architecture to release and communicate system design trade-offs.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of software engineering experience; ideally 2+ years in applied machine learning.
- Strong Python backend skills and familiarity with machine learning operations.
- Production experience deploying language or vision-language models, or custom inference pipelines.
- Solid working knowledge of scaling backend infrastructure; strong technical communication skills; comfort in fast-paced startup settings; willingness to undergo a government background check.
Pay
USD 165,000 to 250,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Develop retrieval and machine learning inference systems; integrate large language models and vision-language models into production applications.
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