Staff Machine Learning Engineer (AI)

Next Step Systems

8m ago • Remote

Senior

Remote

150,000 - 170,000 USD/yr

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$150,000 – $170,000/year

Quick Facts

  • Role: Staff Machine Learning Engineer (AI)

  • Work mode: 100% Remote (US only)

  • Assessment: 60-minute coding assessment (required)

Description

You own the execution layer of intelligence and translate research into reliable, scalable, production-grade machine learning systems. You will make models trainable, deployable, observable, and performant under real-world constraints while collaborating across research, infrastructure, and product.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end ML system execution: data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation systems, inference architecture, and deployment

  • Fine-tune and adapt models using LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation

  • Architect and operate scalable inference systems balancing latency, cost, and reliability

  • Design and maintain data systems for synthetic and real-world training data

  • Implement evaluation pipelines for performance, robustness, safety, and bias with research leadership

  • Own production deployment, including GPU optimization, memory efficiency, latency reduction, and scaling

  • Collaborate with application engineering to integrate ML systems into backend and client products

  • Make pragmatic trade-offs, ship improvements quickly, and learn from production usage

  • Operate under production constraints for latency, cost, reliability, and safety

Requirements

  • Experience building or shipping ML systems used by people (not just demos)

  • AI experience required

  • Experience working with large models and understanding their failure modes

  • Experience writing strong, production-grade code

  • Self-directed, pragmatic, and able to take full ownership of outcomes

  • Clear communication and good collaboration in small, high-trust teams

  • US residency with proof and willingness to complete a 60-minute coding assessment

Benefits

  • Medical insurance

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Savings plan options

  • PTO

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