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Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Job Location:
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 320000 - 360000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
20 September 2026 (16 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
18 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Attentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. Were the only marketing platform that combines powerful technology with human expertise to build authentic customer relationships. By unifying SMS RCS email and push notifications our AI-powered personalization engine delivers bespoke experiences that drive performance revenue and loyalty through real-time behavioral insights.
Recognized as the#1provider in SMS Marketing by G2 Attentive partners with more than 8000 customers across 70 industries. Leading global brands like Crate and Barrel Urban Outfitters and Carters work with us to enable billions of interactions that power tens of billions in revenue for our customers.
With a distributed global workforce and employee hubs in New York City San Francisco London and Sydney Attentives team has been consistently recognized for its performance and culture. Were proud to be included inDeloittes Fast 500(four years running!)LinkedIns Top StartupsForbes Cloud 100 (five years running!)Inc.s Best Workplaces and theHuman Rights Campaign Foundations Corporate Equality Index!
About the Role
Our Machine Learning Engineering team powers personalized experiences for hundreds of millions of customers across thousands of brands. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer you will play a critical role in building scaling and operating production-grade ML systems that drive real-time personalization across the Attentive platform.
You will operate with a high degree of ownership partner closely with Product and Engineering and help raise the technical bar across our ML systems in a fast-paced high-impact environment.
What Youll Accomplish
- You have a proven track record of building systems that maintain a high bar of quality
- You deeply loathe regressions and take proactive steps to protect against them through a variety of testing techniques
- You are a collaborator technical leader and a great communicator
- You are constantly improving the quality of the project you are working on both via direct contributions as well as long-term advocacy for larger-scale changes
- You are enthusiastic about the high impact fast-paced work environment of an late-stage startup
- 10 years experience is ideal
Your Expertise
- You have worked professionally building systems for 6 years with experience on a single system long enough to see the consequences of your decisions
- Experience with TensorFlow/Pytorch xgboost pandas matplotlib SQL Spark or similar tools
- You have proficiency or experience with Python
- You have extensive experience using machine learning and data analysis or similar to build scalable systems and data-driven products working with cross-functional teams
- You have a proven track record of building scalable efficient automated processes for large-scale data analyses model development model validation and model implementation from modern research
- You have led cross-functional machine learning projects across teams
What We Use
- Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWSs EKS
- Infrastructure tooling includes Istio Datadog Terraform CloudFlare and Helm
- Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices built with Gradle coupled with things like DynamoDB Kinesis AirFlow Postgres Planetscale and Redis hosted via AWS
- Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript and uses best practices like GraphQL Storybook Radix UI Vite esbuild and Playwright
- Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models lots of data and built with Python Metaflow HuggingFace PyTorch TensorFlow and Pandas
Youll get competitiveperks and benefits from health & wellness to equity to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $320000 - $360000 annually equity benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location
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Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each others champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers success
Act Like an Owner- Take responsibility for Attentives success
Learn more about AWAKE Attentives collective of employee resource groups.
If you do not meet all the requirements listed here we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive we know that our Companys strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination harassment and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations please let your recruiter know.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
Discover how Attentive uses AI to enhance SMS and email marketing for personalized and effective customer engagement.
