Clera · Posted 4mo ago
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Recruitment agency. Recruitment agency: the role is advertised on behalf of an employer who is not named.
- Location
- 🇺🇸 San Francisco, United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Role
- ML engineering
- Source
- Employer’s own job board (Ashby)
Stack
- PyTorch
- LLM
- Python
The posting
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.