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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Raydar
San Francisco, California, United States Posted Oct 21, 2026
Full-time

About this role

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take ownership of a brand-new product and the infrastructure behind it, building AI-powered systems that run reliably in production. Partner directly with customers and help set engineering standards, team culture and the technical direction.

What you'll do

  • Design an AI agent layer with built-in review and validation steps before outputs reach people or other systems.

  • Build secure connectors and a runtime that can interpret complex enterprise software environments.

  • Create developer-facing tooling and a code analysis capability for modernizing older codebases.

  • Set up low-latency model serving with detailed monitoring of usage and performance.

  • Take language-model pipelines, information retrieval and light model tuning from prototype to production where they add clear value.

  • Collaborate directly with customers on high-impact projects.

  • Help shape the engineering bar, team culture and product roadmap.

  • Requirements

  • What we're looking for

  • Experience working on enterprise or B2B AI products.

  • Foundational machine learning experience, whether from research, school internships or full-time work.

  • A track record of shipping production code in a shared team codebase.

  • Experience with large language models and AI platforms, including building agent frameworks and evaluating models or agents.

  • Hands-on experience coordinating multi-step AI agent systems and retrieval-based approaches.

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or machine learning from a top-tier university.

  • Regular use of AI tools in daily work, with practical views on how they can improve engineering and operations.

  • Strong ownership, clear communication and comfort deciding with incomplete information.

  • Ability to move quickly and carefully, and willingness to pick up new technologies.

  • Bonus points

  • Software engineering experience at high-growth technology companies or startups.

  • Published machine learning research.

  • Familiarity with an agent orchestration framework.

  • 2 to 4 years of experience is the ideal range.

  • Benefits

  • Compensation and benefits

  • Base salary: USD 175,000 to 300,000 per year

  • Equity

  • Location and work model

  • San Francisco, CA, United States

  • On-site, 5 days per week in office

  • Full-time

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