Founding Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Founding Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer (AI): Operate at the bleeding edge of technology and customers' consequential problems, building production-grade ML solutions that close platform gaps across diverse domains, data landscapes, and constraints. Focus on identifying high-leverage opportunities, shipping missing features, delivering technical demos, and owning outcomes from discovery through deployment.

On-site in San Francisco; Bay Area

Company

Building efficient intelligence that evolves in real-time for flexible, personalized, and accessible AI systems.

What you will do

• Go deep on customer problems and data workflows to identify high-leverage opportunities and build solutions to capture them.
• Identify product gaps through hands-on engagement and implement production-grade ML solutions.
• Develop compelling demos and deliver technical presentations to senior stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic and technical partner from discovery through deployment, accountable for results.

Requirements

• 4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
• Strong software engineering skills and familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
• Solid understanding of data modeling for training and curation decisions impacting model performance.
• Experience training or fine-tuning models using human feedback, reward signals, or adaptive learning techniques.
• Excellent communication skills to operate across varied customer environments and tech stacks.
• Mindset of ownership, curiosity, and bias toward action.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration in the Bay Area with a distributed global-first team and team offsites.
• hirify.global Passport: annual travel stipend to explore a new country.
• Lunch stipend: weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.
• Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.