Raydar
Senior AI/ML Engineer
$180K–$275K
San Francisco, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 4 to 6+ years building production software, machine learning systems, or applied AI systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline such as computer science or engineering.
About the job
Own the applied AI layer of a software platform, building and monitoring production services for retrieval, structured extraction, evaluation, and language-model workflows.
What you'll do
- Build production AI services and pipelines that turn unstructured inputs into structured results, including retrieval and context assembly.
- Create evaluation datasets, regression tests, launch gates, fallbacks, and guardrails to maintain quality and safety.
- Develop multi-step, tool-using workflows, monitor them in production, and improve features using experiments and user feedback.
What they ask for
- 4 to 6+ years building production software, machine learning systems, or applied AI systems.
- Strong Python skills, including building and maintaining services and using async patterns.
- Track record shipping and owning production AI/ML systems; hands-on experience with evaluation suites, benchmarks, or automated ML testing and delivery workflows.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, retrieval, or agent orchestration; Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline; ability to work on-site five days a week.
Nice to have
- Experience with embeddings, hybrid search, chunking, and reranking.
- Familiarity with a typed language such as Go, C++, Java, Scala, or C.
Pay
USD 180,000 to 275,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, C++, Java, Scala, C
AI focus
Build dependable applied AI services using hosted language models, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, evaluation, guardrails, and tool-using workflows; monitor and improve them in production.
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