Founding ML Engineer

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On-site

San Francisco

$200k-$300k + 1% Equity

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The Role

My client are looking for a Founding ML Engineer to join their 10-person team. They are looking for someone who has more than 5 YOE with building and deploying end-to-end ML architectures. This would be someone senior who has worked in industry, but is hungry to grow and lead a startup on a rocketship trajectory. This candidate would work with the founders to lead a team of ML engineers who left companies like Google and Microsoft because these guys are much cooler!

Building a good model-router is technically challenging. It requires training reward models from human feedback, developing more effective routing models, reducing model costs, and hosting models in a production-ready way. My client looking for someone to take on those challenges with Martian, both directly contributing as an engineer and leading the ML Eng team.

What we're looking for:

  • Worked on model evaluation, coding in Pytorch, and using LLMs in production.
  • Ability to prioritize and solve problems end-to-end and learn quickly to fill knowledge gaps.
  • Have an understanding of modern ML architectures and an intuition for how to optimize their performance, particularly for inference.
  • Experience building applied ML applications.
  • Track record of being scrappy and knowing when to use off-the-shelf solutions vs building new features.
  • Experience working in ML roles at a top startup or at a leading AI company.
  • 5+ years of experience of professional ML engineering or equivalent.