Founding Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

About this role

Join this founding team as a forward-deployed ML engineer working directly with customers to identify high-leverage problems and build production machine learning solutions. You'll bridge the gap between customer needs and product capabilities, shipping custom ML implementations while shaping the company's roadmap through real-world deployment experience.

What you'll do

• Identify high-leverage opportunities by going deep on customer problems and data workflows
• Build and deploy production-grade ML solutions when the platform falls short
• Develop technical demos and present solutions to senior customer stakeholders
• Partner with customers from discovery through deployment, owning outcomes end-to-end
• Train and fine-tune models using human feedback and adaptive learning techniques
• Operate across diverse customer environments and technology stacks

What they're looking for

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
• Data modeling and curation for training
• Model training and fine-tuning with feedback signals
• Customer-facing technical communication
• Cross-functional collaboration and ownership mindset
• Adaptability across varied domains and constraints
• Ability to identify and ship solutions independently

Benefits

• Flexible work with in-person Bay Area collaboration and distributed options
• Adaption Passport: annual travel stipend to explore new countries
• Weekly lunch stipend for meals
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Generous paid time off