Staff Machine Learning Engineer
- Salary
- $200,000 - $300,000
- Level
- Staff
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 14 March 2026.
About the role
About Hive
Hive's standard text
Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world's largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software applications powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, enabling breakthrough use cases across industries.
Together, Hive’s solutions are transforming content moderation, brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.
Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. We have over 250 employees globally in our San Francisco, Seattle, and Delhi offices. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the future of AI!
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class machine learning engineers. We are looking for developers who are excited about staying at the forefront of deep learning technology, prototyping state-of-the-art neural net models and launching these models into production. We value hard workers who have no qualms working with terabyte-scale datasets, who are interested in learning new technologies at all levels of the machine learning stack, and who move fast and take ownership of their projects.
Our ideal candidate has experience creating a working machine learning-powered project from the ground up, contributes innovative ideas and ingenious implementations to the team, and is capable of planning out scalable, maintainable data pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Everything involved in applying a ML model to a production use case, including designing and coding up the neural network, gathering and refining data, training and tuning the model, deploying it at scale with high throughput and uptime, and analyzing the results in the wild in order to continuously update and improve accuracy and speed
- Write and maintain scalable, performant code that can be shared across platforms
- Contribute meaningfully to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Develop novel, accurate, and performant ML algorithms for use at scale
- Conduct metric-driven research experiments to improve model performance
- Provide mentorship to and help onboard ML engineers
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with other teams
- Contribute to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority
Minimum Requirements
- You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
- You have 8+ years of experience building web applications
- You have successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
- You have delivered scalable backend APIs
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
- You have experience writing code and training across distributed systems
- You have the ability to understand and make well-reasoned tradeoffs in designing features
- You are an expert in machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch or Tensorflow
- You are an expert in scripting languages such as Python and/or shell scripts, particularly for data analysis
- You are a subject matter expert in at least one focus area of machine learning, such as computer vision or natural language processing
- You can lead end to end development of new products
Who We Are
Hive's standard text
We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Hive, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.
Thank you for your interest in Hive and we hope to meet you soon!
The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $200,000 - $300,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.
Employees are eligible to participate in a number of Company-sponsored benefits, including health, vision and dental insurance. Employees are also eligible to participate in a gym membership as part of our commitment to employee wellness. In addition, employees will be entitled to paid vacation in accordance with the Company's vacation policy.
Hired applicant may receive an equity grant in the form of an option to purchase stock in the future for a specified price.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Computer Vision · TensorFlow
Rare in Hive's other 41 open postings.
Standard for data science / ML roles
Machine Learning · PyTorch · Python
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
82% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Hive's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Hive's other open postings on this site.
The team: Product & Engineering
This role is one of 35 open in Product & Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (19 of 35), OWASP (17 of 35), Node.js (14 of 35), JavaScript (13 of 35), Python (13 of 35), Deep Learning (10 of 35), Bash (9 of 35)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Associate Product Manager, Hive Models posted Jul 23
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer posted Feb 13
- Product Manager, AutoML posted Feb 27
- Product Manager, Consumer Applications posted Feb 27
- Data Center Technician posted Feb 9
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 21
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 21
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 21
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Apr 21
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 21
- Senior Software Engineer - Frontend posted Apr 21
- Security Engineer posted Apr 21
- Machine Learning Manager posted Apr 21
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Apr 21
- Software Engineer - Frontend posted Apr 21
- Engineering Manager posted Apr 21
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Apr 20
- Machine Learning Manager posted Jan 24
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Dec 10
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer posted Dec 10
- Senior Software Engineer - Frontend posted Nov 23
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Nov 23
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Nov 23
- Product Manager, Hive Models posted Jun 22
- Security Engineer posted May 6
- Systems Engineer / DevOps posted Jan 15
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Jan 15
- Product Manager, Hive Data posted Jan 15
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Jan 15
- Software Engineer - Frontend posted Jan 15
- Engineering Manager posted Jan 15
- Business Analyst, Hive Models posted Jan 15
- UI / UX Designer posted Nov 13
- Frontend Engineer posted Nov 13
From the team and dates on Hive's own job board.
Salary context
22 other open postings titled Staff Machine Learning Engineer state a salary: median USD 200,000 to USD 264,250 a year.
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