Raydar
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
$200K–$275K
Los Altos, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- Seven-plus years shipping and operating live-load machine learning models; at least one year working on builds in a Department of Defense or US federal IL5 setting.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship or Green Card status is required.
About the job
Deploy and operate machine learning, language, and speech services in an accredited cloud environment, ensuring performance, secure data handling, evaluation, and compliance documentation.
What you'll do
- Launch and optimize hosted language and speech services within a secured cloud boundary.
- Migrate retrieval and modeling workflows to approved cloud services and evaluate correctness, grounding, and refusal handling.
- Maintain model-release and data-origin records, and configure permissions and activity logging for the retrieval layer.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship or Green Card status.
- Experience running machine learning or large language model services at IL5 or above in a Department of Defense setting.
- At least one year working on builds inside a Department of Defense or US federal IL5 setting.
- Seven-plus years shipping and operating machine learning models handling live user load; bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field.
Nice to have
- Prior work in a regulated or public-facing sector, or experience as a founder or founding engineer.
- Expertise in cloud-based AI platforms; a major public cloud is preferred, with AWS or GCP also valued.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 275,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GCP
AI focus
Deploy and optimize language and speech services, migrate retrieval and modeling workflows, and assess model correctness, source grounding, and refusal handling in an accredited cloud environment.
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