Demo

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Collinear AI
Mountain View, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/21/2025

About the Company

Born from the understanding that AI deployment shouldn't require months of preparation or compromise on quality, we've built a comprehensive platform that turns your brand values into production-ready AI applications in days, not months.


Our product is AI Judges that are trained with proprietary auto-align technology and powered by state-of-the-art research on Alignment and RL. We help companies build AI systems that aren't just safe and reliable, but truly aligned with their brand values and business objectives.

Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms, we're on a mission to make safe, reliable, and highly-performant frontier AI for enterprise use-cases a reality.


Join us in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI! Learn more about the company here.


About the Role

As a Research / ML Engineer, you will play a crucial role in conducting and enabling cutting-edge research and translating it into our core product pipeline. You will work closely with other members of the technical staff to develop and improve state-of-the-art judges for safety, reliability, and data curation. Your technical skills will accelerate our research and ensure that our product remains at the forefront of innovation.


About You

There are a few specific things we’ll be looking for that will help you succeed in this role:

  • PhD or Masters in Computer Science with an emphasis on Machine Learning, or a related technical field
  • 3-4 years of experience in an industry research lab or equivalent academic experience
  • Strong background in machine learning systems, such as distributed training of large models and/or ML performance optimization
  • Knowledge of ML/AI applications and models, especially foundation models, how they are constructed, and how they are used
  • Experience contributing to research communities, including open-source research projects or publishing at conferences (e.g., CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV/ECCV, BMVC)
  • Strong foundations in software engineering and empirical research
  • Ability to work separately and as part of a team. Excellent communication and presentation skills


Notes

We are working leading global enterprises to deliver cutting-edge AI safety and reliability tools. And we are looking for brilliant, high-agency, low-ego rockstars to join us on this crusade. We want the best of the best and firmly believe greatness begets greatness.


Come here to push yourself hard, learn things fast, experience unmatched excellence, and do your life's work.

If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Founding Machine Learning Engineer?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Founding Machine Learning Engineer career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$123,167 - $152,295
Income Estimation: 
$146,673 - $180,130
Income Estimation: 
$98,763 - $126,233
Income Estimation: 
$116,330 - $143,011
Income Estimation: 
$113,077 - $147,784
Income Estimation: 
$77,900 - $95,589
Income Estimation: 
$101,387 - $124,118
Income Estimation: 
$101,387 - $124,118
Income Estimation: 
$119,030 - $151,900
Income Estimation: 
$119,030 - $151,900
Income Estimation: 
$149,493 - $192,976
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Collinear AI

Collinear AI
Hired Organization Address Mountain View, CA Full Time
About the Company Born from the understanding that AI deployment shouldn't require months of preparation or compromise o...
Collinear AI
Hired Organization Address Mountain View, CA Full Time
Company Overview AI hallucinates - and we all know it! Unsafe / hallucinated content poses a significant risk to enterpr...

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Founding Machine Learning Engineer jobs in the Mountain View, CA area that may be a better fit.

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!