ML / AI Engineer
- Salary
- $200,000 - $300,000 annually
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 25 October 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join a small, senior engineering team building the ML foundation for consumer products. You will create data pipelines, models, retrieval systems, and inference infrastructure that power useful, intuitive AI experiences.
What You'll Do
- Architect and build machine learning and retrieval systems for core product experiences.
- Design data pipelines that ingest, classify, enrich, and summarize user data.
- Build scalable inference infrastructure for real-time and batch workloads.
- Select and fine-tune models, develop embeddings and RAG pipelines, and establish evaluation frameworks and quality measures.
- Prototype AI-powered product ideas, then strengthen successful approaches for production.
- Work with product, design, and engineering to turn consumer needs into polished ML features.
- Help establish strong ML practices across the team, including attention to system quality and failure modes.
What We're Looking For
- At least 5 years of software or machine learning engineering experience in consumer AI or ML systems.
- Experience building and shipping ML-powered consumer features from concept to real users, such as personalization, ranking, search, or recommendations.
- Strong applied ML experience, including developing custom models such as embedding, recommendation, or personalization models.
- Practical experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, classification, NLP, ranking, or retrieval systems.
- Experience with Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, vector databases, and ML data pipelines or inference infrastructure.
- A degree in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Product judgment, end-to-end ownership, and comfort working in an early-stage or entrepreneurial environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
What this role asks for
Standard for data science / ML roles
LLM · Machine Learning · Python
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.
The team: Client Roles
This role is one of 118 open in Client Roles. 118 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (64 of 118), LLM (47 of 118), TypeScript (47 of 118), React (38 of 118), Machine Learning (30 of 118), AWS (27 of 118), JavaScript (27 of 118)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
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- Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 25
- Engineering Manager posted Oct 25
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- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 25
- Fullstack Software Engineer posted Oct 25
- Founding ML Researcher posted Oct 25
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 25
- Frontend Engineer posted Oct 25
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 25
- Software Engineer, iOS posted Oct 25
- Forward Deployed AI Engineer posted Oct 24
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 24
- Software Engineer, Marketplace posted Oct 24
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 24
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 24
- Senior Full Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 24
- Product Engineer (Mid-Senior) posted Oct 24
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 24
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Oct 24
- AI Scheduler posted Oct 24
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding Backend Software Engineer posted Oct 24
- Director of Engineering posted Oct 24
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Oct 24
- Engineering Manager posted Oct 24
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Oct 24
- Mechanical Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 24
- Product Lead, Agentic Personalization posted Oct 24
- AI Research Scientist posted Oct 24
- Senior Computer Vision ML / Research Engineer posted Oct 24
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 24
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems posted Oct 24
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 24
- Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 24
- Technical Recruiter posted Oct 24
- Product Manager, AI Education posted Oct 24
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 24
- Full Stack Engineer posted Oct 24
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 24
- Brand & Identity / Presentation Designer posted Oct 24
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 24
- Software Engineer, AI Agents posted Oct 24
- Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 24
- Founding AI Engineer posted Oct 24
- Full-Stack Product Engineer posted Oct 24
- Full Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 24
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Oct 24
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Oct 24
- Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Evaluation & Reliability posted Oct 23
- Senior QA Engineer, Brazil posted Oct 23
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer, AI posted Oct 23
- Senior LATAM Quantitative Developer posted Oct 23
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 23
- Director of Engineering posted Oct 23
- GTM Engineer posted Oct 23
- Founding RL Engineer posted Oct 23
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 23
- Senior / Staff Product Engineer posted Oct 23
- Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 23
- Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 23
- Senior Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Oct 23
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 23
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Platform posted Oct 23
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 23
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 23
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Oct 23
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 22
- Senior Product Manager posted Oct 22
- Mechanical Design Engineer posted Oct 22
- Member of Technical Staff, Agent Platform posted Oct 22
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 22
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 22
- Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems posted Oct 22
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tactical Edge posted Oct 22
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform posted Oct 22
- Software Engineer, RL Environments posted Oct 22
- Robotics Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 22
- Founding Backend & Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 22
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Oct 21
- Solutions Engineer posted Oct 21
- Product Engineer, Scrape posted Oct 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Customer Studio Backend posted Oct 21
- Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack posted Oct 21
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 21
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Oct 21
- Staff Product Manager posted Oct 21
- Founding PLM Solutions Engineer posted Oct 21
- Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot posted Oct 21
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Oct 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Design posted Oct 21
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 21
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 21
- Software Engineer posted Oct 21
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 21
- Design Engineer posted Oct 21
- Chief Product Officer posted Oct 21
- Research Crawling Engineer posted Oct 21
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 21
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 21
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Oct 21
- Founding Research Engineer, Robot Learning posted Oct 21
- Engineering Lead posted Oct 21
- Senior Backend Engineer posted Oct 21
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 21
- Senior Platform Security Engineer posted Oct 21
- Software Engineer, Mid-Level to Staff+ posted Oct 21
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 21
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- AI Solutions Consultant posted Oct 21
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