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Machine Learning Engineer 5

San Jose💼 Full-time💰 $172,500–$172,500🗓 2026-05-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build LLM-powered systems to simulate consumer audiences for pre-testing ads and campaigns.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (LLM applications)

Builds

Synthetic audiences, LLM-powered simulated consumers, inference harnesses, evaluation datasets

Domain

Marketing technology, Generative AI, Consumer behavior modeling

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM application development, complex inference harness design, LLM fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, GRPO), RLHF/RLAIF, evaluation dataset creation, Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM, MLOps, cloud ML services

Preferred skills

Synthetic audiences research, persona simulation, public opinion/survey data analysis

Technologies

PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM, W&B, AWS, GCP, Azure

Responsibilities

Design and ship LLM-powered systems from proof-of-concept to production; Develop complex inference and reasoning harnesses; Fine-tune LLMs on survey and behavioral data; Build evaluation datasets and benchmarks; Partner with product and engineering teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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