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Senior Machine Learning Specialist

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2025-10-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and deploying custom machine learning solutions, specifically transformer architectures and large language models, for an AI-native platform.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning specialist (NLP & LLMs)

Builds

Production ML systems, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuned large language models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, transformer architectures, large language models, fine-tuning, RAG systems, ML pipeline development, cloud ML infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI), data preprocessing, feature engineering

Preferred skills

MLOps, ML pipeline orchestration, distributed training, vector databases, reinforcement learning

Responsibilities

Design and develop custom ML models for business use cases; Implement and optimize transformer architectures for NLP; Develop and maintain ML pipelines for training and inference; Work with large language models and implement fine-tuning strategies; Implement and optimize RAG systems; Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy models in production; Monitor and maintain model performance with retraining strategies; Conduct research on emerging ML techniques; Mentor junior ML engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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