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Senior ML Engineer (Remote, USA)

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Washington, DC Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 12/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/24/2026
Requirements:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • 7 years of professional work experience after BS/MS applying machine learning to real-world problems, and crafting scalable and effective ML/AI solutions.
  • Strong domain knowledge in at least one of the following: RAG, LLM, information retrieval, Multimodal LLMs.
  • Excellent programming skills in Python. Proficiency in data/ML libraries such as pandas, transformers, and torch.
  • Familiarity with the technical details of deep learning concepts, such as Transformers, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), mixture of experts (MoE).
  • Hands-on experience in training ML systems end-to-end from data curation to evaluation and deployment.
  • PhD in Computer Science/Engineering with 1 years of industry experience.
  • Publications in top-tier venues such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR as a key author.
  • Experience as an ML engineer in an early-stage, high-growth environment.
  • Expertise includes embedding models, rerankers, multimodal retrieval, question answering, reasoning, vector databases, and BM25.
  • Skilled in planning and reasoning in LLMs, multilinguality in LLMs, and NLG evaluation, including hallucination detection.


Responsibilities:

  • Design, prototype, research, and build AI systems for the Company.
  • Train, evaluate, and deploy ML models in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, AI Agents, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Multimodal Large Models (MLMs).
  • Improve the quality of the Company's AI Agents and RAG-as-a-service platform, including features such as agentic behavior, hallucination reduction/correction, and agent orchestration.
  • Publish technical blogs, research papers, and patents.

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