Senior Machine Learning Developer

The role

Build and operate conversational AI systems for phone and SMS. Work spans product and ML platform development, including LLM-powered features and evaluation systems.

What you will do

• Build conversational AI systems that understand customer needs, take action, and escalate.
• Develop agent memory, knowledge graph, and customization tools.
• Train, evaluate, and deploy models for prediction, classification, ranking, and capacity forecasting.
• Create offline and online evaluations, simulations, and CI checks.
• Build shared ML and LLM infrastructure for model serving, evaluation, observability, and product development.
• Monitor and maintain production models and agents.
• Contribute to technical reviews, documentation, and mentorship.

Required qualifications

• At least 6 years of software or machine learning engineering experience.
• Track record of shipping and operating ML or LLM systems in production.
• Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building conversational AI for phone or SMS, or related real-time and streaming systems such as voice, SIP, or WebRTC.
• Hands-on experience training and deploying ML models, or building LLM systems with prompting, tool use, agents, or retrieval.
• Experience with evaluation frameworks, simulations, production monitoring, or ML platform tooling.
• Familiarity with tools such as Ray Serve, Dagster, LiveKit, Vertex AI, GCP, Kubernetes, Pulumi, and AI provider APIs.
• Comfort taking ownership from problem definition through production, working with ambiguity, and supporting teammates through reviews and mentorship.

About the company

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