Drimva

Snorkel AI

Senior / Staff Software Engineer — AI / ML

$208K–$315K

New York City, NY (Hybrid) +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026

Location
New York City, NY (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
San Francisco
Experience
5+ years building production ML or software systems.

About the job

Develop and productionize ML methods and systems that make frontier AI data generation and evaluation faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

What you'll do

  • Optimize agent evaluations through methods such as adaptive sampling, early stopping, model cascades, and caching.
  • Build model routing, fine-tuned model serving, task-difficulty prediction, and rigorous AI data measurement systems.
  • Turn research prototypes into reusable production components and shape the ML & Research Engineering discipline.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years building production ML or software systems, with end-to-end ownership from prototype to production.
  • Hands-on experience running LLM or ML workloads in production.
  • Strong grounding in statistics and experimentation, including experiment design, hypothesis testing, sampling, and confidence intervals.
  • Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals, plus experience designing evaluations and interpreting results rigorously.

Nice to have

  • Fine-tuning and serving open-weight models; building LLM evaluation platforms, model gateways, or routing systems.
  • Experience with agentic workloads, benchmarks, or RL environments; research-to-production record; or an MS or PhD in a related field.

Pay

$208,000 — $315,000 USD base salary

Tools

Python, LoRA

AI focus

Build and evaluate systems for frontier AI data, including agentic evaluations, model routing, fine-tuned small models, predictive task difficulty, and LLM-as-judge measurement.

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