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Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco Bay Area💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building agent-native operating systems for regulated institutions (construction, insurance, health) to automate complex workflows like permitting and claims processing.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (applied AI, agentic systems)

Builds

Production decision systems, composite AI pipelines, and agent-based workflows for government, insurance, and health sectors.

Domain

Applied AI, institutional automation, regulated industries (construction, insurance, healthcare)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLMs and agentic systems, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, tool use, reasoning, vision transformers, segmentation models, VLMs, rule engines, evaluation design, data pipeline engineering

Preferred skills

RL fine-tuning, composite system architecture, failure-mode taxonomy design

Technologies

LLMs, vision transformers, segmentation models, VLMs, rule engines

Responsibilities

Define ML problems from ambiguous customer needs, own AI systems end-to-end from training to production, work directly with institutional stakeholders, engineer for production constraints (accuracy, latency, cost), build rigorous evaluation suites

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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