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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-02 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building the first fully autonomous underwriting system for commercial insurance, enabling email-to-price workflows with zero human intervention until the final step.

Role type

Founding Machine Learning Engineer (End-to-End)

Builds

Autonomous underwriting agents, confidence scoring frameworks, and feedback loops for risk assessment.

Domain

Commercial Insurance / AI / Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end ML system design, LLM fine-tuning (RLHF, DPO, LoRA), Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace, LLM production deployment, synthetic data generation, confidence calibration, model evaluation

Preferred skills

Document parsing/NLP, agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph), TypeScript, data pipelines (SQL, dbt, Spark), insurance domain knowledge

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace, AWS Sagemaker, LangChain, LangGraph, TypeScript, SQL, dbt, Spark

Responsibilities

Design and ship ML systems for autonomous underwriting decisions, build feedback loops to improve models from human underwriter behavior, develop confidence scoring and evaluation frameworks, partner with underwriters to extract domain knowledge and validate outputs, contribute to observability and guardrail infrastructure for AI safety

Seniority

Founding, high-ownership IC

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