Senior AI/ML Engineer

About the role
Our client is a well-funded AI startup building production-grade ML infrastructure used by enterprise customers. They are looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer to own model training pipelines, evaluation systems, and inference serving at scale. Full-time, on-site in San Francisco.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design and ship end-to-end ML systems: data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment
• Own model performance, latency, and cost trade-offs in production
• Build evaluation harnesses and offline benchmarks for fast iteration
• Work directly with product to translate ambiguous goals into measurable model improvements
• Mentor other engineers on ML best practices and code quality

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 4+ years of applied ML engineering in production environments
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, or large-scale recommender systems
• Strong Python and PyTorch (or JAX) fundamentals
• Experience with distributed training, GPU optimization, or inference serving
• Pragmatic about trade-offs between research-grade and ship-grade work

This role is presented by a recruiting partner. Company name shared after an initial conversation.