Raydar
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
$150K–$250K
San Francisco, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3 to 6 years of full-time experience in machine learning or applied AI.
About the job
Designs reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, data pipelines, and automation to create training assets for AI models tackling mechanical and electrical engineering design tasks.
What you'll do
- Build reinforcement learning environments and evaluations for computer-aided design tasks, including scoring and reward functions.
- Curate expert task data and build pipelines and ML infrastructure for model training; automate scoring and content creation.
- Partner with domain engineers and post-training teams, and run experiments to guide technical direction and product priorities.
What they ask for
- 3 to 6 years of full-time experience in machine learning or applied AI.
- Prior work in a physical-engineering setting, day-to-day partnership with mechanical or electrical engineers, or a degree in one of those fields.
- Some exposure to engineering design software or vision-based machine learning applied to physical objects.
- Hands-on experience building reinforcement learning environments, or using them for post-training.
Nice to have
- Senior-level machine learning depth, especially in reinforcement learning, data pipelines, evaluations, and LLM-as-judge methods.
- Practical experience with model assessments, scoring systems, data flows, and training infrastructure; initiative, ownership, or scaling-startup experience are also noted as bonuses.
Pay
USD 150,000 to 250,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
reinforcement learning, computer-aided design, LLM-as-judge
AI focus
Builds reinforcement learning environments, evaluation and grading methods, and training data infrastructure for AI models working on technical design tasks.
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