Machine Learning Engineer, Frontier Data Products
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Location: San Francisco CA or New York City NY
Company Stage of Funding: Series C (Profitable $10B Valuation)
Office Type: Onsite (5 Days/Week)
Salary: $130000 $500000 Equity Performance Bonus
Company Description
Our client is one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies building the human intelligence platform powering the next generation of frontier AI models. Their platform enables leading AI labs and enterprises to access expert knowledge at scale accelerating the development of advanced AI systems through high-quality human feedback and evaluation.
As a profitable Series C company with a multi-billion-dollar valuation they are building foundational infrastructure at the intersection of machine learning human intelligence and AI product development.
What You Will Do
- Design and build production machine learning systems that evaluate validate and improve AI-generated work
- Develop evaluation frameworks for complex tasks where labels are ambiguous incomplete or constantly evolving
- Build feedback loops that incorporate human review disagreement resolution and model corrections into continuous learning systems
- Own production model performance including quality latency explainability drift detection and cost optimization
- Improve AI system performance using prompting retrieval fine-tuning heuristics active learning and human-in-the-loop techniques
- Partner closely with backend engineers to integrate ML inference into scalable production workflows
- Debug and improve live production ML systems where model quality directly impacts customer outcomes
- Help define the architecture and long-term technical direction of AI evaluation infrastructure
Ideal Candidate Background
- 3 years of experience building and deploying production machine learning systems
- Strong software engineering skills with Python and production backend development
- Experience shipping ML systems that measurably improved product or business outcomes
- Strong understanding of evaluation methodologies error analysis and production model behavior
- Experience with LLM applications retrieval systems model evaluation or AI-powered products
- Strong engineering fundamentals across the full ML lifecycle from data through deployment
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous fast-moving environments with evolving requirements
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Preferred
- Experience with LLM evaluation RAG prompt engineering fine-tuning or AI agents
- Experience building human-in-the-loop machine learning systems
- Experience with Temporal AWS PostgreSQL LiteLLM or distributed backend systems
- Familiarity with production monitoring drift detection and model observability
- Startup or high-growth engineering experience
- Strong product instincts and ability to balance ML sophistication with operational simplicity
- Experience working on AI infrastructure developer platforms or ML tooling
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive base salary: $130000 $500000
- Generous equity package
- Bi-annual performance bonus
- Relocation assistance
- Housing stipend for employees living near the office
- Monthly meal wellness and lifestyle stipends
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
- Opportunity to build core infrastructure used by the worlds leading AI companies
This is an exceptional opportunity for machine learning engineers who enjoy building production AI systems solving complex evaluation challenges and shaping the infrastructure powering frontier AI development.
Required Experience:
IC
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