Machine Learning Research Engineer, GenAI Applied ML Job at Scale (San Francisco)

Research Engineer, GenAI

You will be part of Kiddom’s Data Science team, building the foundation of our s...

Location

United States , San Francisco; New York

Salary:

175000.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year

Kiddom

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

5+ years of industry experience applying machine learning to solve real-world problems with large, complex datasets
1–2 years in a technical leadership role
Proven track record designing, evaluating, and deploying ML/AI systems in production environments that drive measurable business impact, ideally in recommendation, personalization, search, or workflow optimization
Strong programming skills in Python
Fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and common ML toolkits (scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow/PyTorch)
Strong analytical skills and ability to break down complex problems into measurable hypotheses and experiments
Excellent communication skills with a history of cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and engineering stakeholders

Job Responsibility

Architect and scale machine learning systems for search, personalization, and recommendations that power Kiddom’s teacher helper and insight engine
Develop evaluation-first development workflows to measure how models improve teaching efficiency, lesson planning, and student learning outcomes
Fine-tune machine learning models with feedback signals from teachers and students to align outputs with instructional goals and classroom needs
Design intelligent discovery pipelines that combine semantic retrieval, curriculum alignment, and real-time personalization
Build agentic assistants that help teachers plan lessons, adapt instruction, and reduce repetitive tasks
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and curriculum experts to translate high-level educational goals into scalable ML-powered systems
Coach and mentor junior ML engineers and data scientists, fostering technical and professional growth

What we offer

Meaningful equity
Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
One Medical membership (in participating locations)
Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year
10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
Paid holidays
Paid bereavement leave
Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State
Commuter and FSA plans

Fulltime

Machine Learning Tech Lead, GenAI

Provectus helps companies adopt ML/AI to transform the ways they operate, compet...

Location

Salary:

8000.00 USD / Month

Provectus

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Proven experience with LLMs and NLP frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face, OpenAI, or Anthropic models)
Strong expertise in AWS Cloud Services
Strong experience in ML/AI, including at least 2 years in a leadership role
Hands-on experience with Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and model optimization
Familiarity with MLOps tools and best practices
Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities
Strong communication skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams
Passion for mentoring and developing engineers

Job Responsibility

Lead and manage a team of 5-10 engineers, providing mentorship and fostering a collaborative team environment
Drive the roadmap for machine learning projects aligned with business goals
Coordinate cross-functional efforts with product, data, and engineering teams to ensure seamless delivery
Design, develop, and fine-tune LLMs and other machine learning models to solve business problems
Evaluate and implement state-of-the-art LLM techniques for NLP tasks such as text generation, summarization, and entity extraction
Stay ahead of advancements in LLMs and apply emerging technologies
Expertise in multiple main fields of ML: NLP, Computer Vision, RL, deep learning and classical ML
Architect and manage scalable ML solutions using AWS services (e.g., SageMaker, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, ECS, ECR, etc.)
Optimize models and data pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency in AWS
Ensure best practices in security, monitoring, and compliance within the cloud infrastructure

What we offer

Annual Performance Bonus: 10% of base salary
Sign-In Bonus: USD 8,000 — paid in two installments: 50% upon start (USD 4,000) 50% upon completion of trial period (USD 4,000)

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional c...

Location

United States

Salary:

195800.00 - 217500.00 USD / Year

PointClickCare

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD or comparable level of experience in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or a related field
4-10+ year industry experience building solutions in commercial SaaS, including at least 4 years working in applications of NLP, Search or AI/ML technologies for healthcare
Strong interest in applying AI/ML/NLP to healthcare related problems and data
Expert-level practical, hands-on experience developing and applying a wide range of techniques in Natural Language Processing, including fine tuning of LLMs and other Transformer models, plus one or more additional AI/ML or Search related areas of expertise to solve real-world problems at scale
Demonstrated ability to lead and perform research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods, and frameworks, as well as tasks such as feature selection, language modeling, evaluation and fine tuning or training models, applying standard approaches or developing new tools or workflows as needed to meet project requirements
Significant experience building and deploying AI/machine learning and NLP models for large-scale SaaS products, including familiarity with industry standard software development concepts such as scaling issues, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and security
Solid understanding and experience with transformer models and multiple kinds of NLP and ML models and approaches including logistic regression, random forest, ensemble methods, SVM, KNN, reinforcement learning, and other ML techniques
Proficiency in Python and Java required. Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and modern UI frameworks for building prototype or tool front ends desired
Proficiency doing data engineering for ML and NLP applications, including exposure to database systems and proficiency with SQL
Proficiency building models from big data using modern packages, models and data analysis stacks such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Keras, LightGBM, fastText, NLTK, and spaCy. Proficiency fine tuning Hugging Face Transformers required

Job Responsibility

You will be applying NLP including GenAI and other AI/ML techniques to develop model systems and solutions, collaborating across functions to scale and integrate advanced solutions into successful end user experiences in large-scale cloud based SaaS production environments for healthcare
You will be working with product leaders, clinical informaticists, data scientists, UI/UX researchers and designers, other AI and machine learning and domain experts, engineering teams and others, including work with customers and users who are healthcare professionals
Design, build and evaluate solutions that may involve structured or unstructured data including speech or natural language for healthcare use cases, delivering capabilities such as summarization, predictive models, recommenders, semantic search, extraction, classification or other NLP, AI or machine learning based techniques
You will be performing research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods and frameworks and doing the R&D to deliver model systems
You will perform, oversee and assist in data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, algorithm selection or design, prompt tuning, parameter fine tuning, training, development and evaluation of systems that deliver responsible AI solutions at scale, using existing or developing new tools or workflows as needed
As a principal applied researcher, you will bring deep technical expertise and also provide mentorship on advanced AI, NLP, data science, statistical and machine learning methods and technologies, helping the organization develop new capabilities for innovative solutions
You will have substantial independence and responsibility from day one

What we offer

Benefits starting from Day 1
Retirement Plan Matching
Flexible Paid Time Off
Wellness Support Programs and Resources
Parental & Caregiver Leaves
Fertility & Adoption Support
Continuous Development Support Program
Employee Assistance Program
Allyship and Inclusion Communities
Employee Recognition … and more

Fulltime

ML Tech Lead, GenAI

Provectus helps companies adopt ML/AI to transform the ways they operate, compet...

Location

Salary:

Not provided

Provectus

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Proven experience with LLMs and NLP frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face, OpenAI, or Anthropic models)
Strong expertise in AWS Cloud Services
Strong experience in ML/AI, including at least 2 years in a leadership role
Hands-on experience with Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and model optimization
Familiarity with MLOps tools and best practices
Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities
Strong communication skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams
Passion for mentoring and developing engineers

Job Responsibility

Lead and manage a team of 5-10 engineers, providing mentorship and fostering a collaborative team environment
Drive the roadmap for machine learning projects aligned with business goals
Coordinate cross-functional efforts with product, data, and engineering teams to ensure seamless delivery
Design, develop, and fine-tune LLMs and other machine learning models to solve business problems
Evaluate and implement state-of-the-art LLM techniques for NLP tasks such as text generation, summarization, and entity extraction
Stay ahead of advancements in LLMs and apply emerging technologies
Expertise in multiple main fields of ML: NLP, Computer Vision, RL, deep learning and classical ML
Architect and manage scalable ML solutions using AWS services (e.g., SageMaker, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, ECS, ECR, etc.)
Optimize models and data pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency in AWS
Ensure best practices in security, monitoring, and compliance within the cloud infrastructure

AI Application Engineer

As an AI Application Engineer at Rearc, you'll contribute to the technical excel...

Location

United States

Salary:

Not provided

Rearc

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

2+ years of experience in AI engineering, machine learning (ML), or related fields, bringing valuable expertise in building and deploying intelligent systems
Strong understanding of state of the art techniques in generative AI, including large language models (LLMs), text generation and other foundation models
Familiarity with AI orchestration tools (e.g. LangGraph, CrewAI, Bedrock Agents, smolagents, etc)
Experience in fine-tuning, prompt engineering or otherwise adapting generative models for specific use cases
Experience with AI model evaluation, including human-in-the-loop and LLM judge paradigms
Familiarity with NLP libraries and frameworks
Hands-on experience in implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and integrating retrieval systems with generative models
Knowledge of at least one vector store or database (e.g. Opensearch, Pinecone, PostgreSQL with pgvector) and techniques for similarity search
Familiarity with common data ingestion/ETL patterns for populating knowledge bases
Experience with implementing LLM tool calling (either directly, via an orchestration framework, or using Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients)

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with Colleagues – Work closely with colleagues to understand customers' business objectives and technical challenges, contributing to the design and development of effective GenAI solutions tailored to client needs
Apply GenAI Principles – Utilize modern tools and frameworks like LangGraph, to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable Compound AI systems. Leverage your understanding of AI fundamentals to ensure every project meets rigorous industry and ethical standards
Adapt to the latest Technologies & Patterns – continue to research, learn, and stay abreast of the most recent state of the art for AI application development
Promote Knowledge Sharing –Bolster our culture of continuous learning by sharing knowledge about AI engineering best practices through blog posts, articles, and internal talks. Support a collaborative environment that fosters shared expertise and ongoing innovation across our community

Engineer 2, Machine Learning

Responsible for contributing to the development and deployment of machine learni...

Location

India , Chennai

Salary:

Not provided

Comcast Advertising

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
3–4 years of hands-on experience in ML engineering, ML testing, or applied ML roles
Strong understanding of ML fundamentals, debugging, and evaluation methodologies
Strong proficiency in Python
Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Experience building or extending testing frameworks (pytest, unittest)
Solid skills in Pandas, NumPy, and data analysis
Experience or exposure to LLMs and GenAI concepts: Prompt engineering, LLM evaluation techniques, RAG pipelines (basic understanding)
Familiarity with ML pipelines, model deployment workflows, and CI/CD
Curious mindset with interest in GenAI and LLM-driven automation

Job Responsibility

Contributes to the implementation, refinement and validation of machine learning algorithms for products and applications
Trains machine learning models, validates the accuracy of the machine learning models once trained and deploys validated machine learning models into production
Contributes to designs and development of data pipelines consisting of data ingest, data validation, data cleaning and data monitoring
Researches, writes and edits documentation and technical requirements, including evaluation plans, confluence pages, white papers, presentations, test results, technical manuals, formal recommendations and reports
Contributes to the company by creating patents, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and other intellectual property
Contributes to the testing and evaluation of solutions presented to the Company by various internal and external partners and vendors
Contributes to case studies, testing and reporting
Designs proof of concept solutions and contributes to studies to support future product or application development
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance

What we offer

Paid Time off
Physical Wellbeing benefits
Financial Wellbeing benefits
Emotional Wellbeing benefits
Life Events + Family Support benefits

Fulltime

Director, Applied AI Engineering- Enterprise

Join the team shaping the future of AI at Scale. The Applied AI team works on th...

Location

United States , San Francisco; New York

Salary:

285200.00 - 356500.00 USD / Year

Scale

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years of experience building, deploying, and scaling ML systems in production, including Enterprise-grade Gen AI and agentic applications
6+ years of people leadership experience, including managing managers and leading multi-team organizations delivering customer-facing AI products
Deep applied expertise in Gen AI, including LLM-based systems, agent orchestration, evaluation and reliability frameworks, and production system design
Experience owning end-to-end AI product delivery—from problem definition and technical architecture to deployment, iteration, and scaling
Strong technical judgment across software engineering, system design, and applied ML fundamentals
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executives, customers, and cross-functional partners
Bachelor’s degree required
Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related field strongly preferred

Job Responsibility

Drive enterprise impact with GenAI: Partner directly with customers to identify high-leverage opportunities for generative AI, design solutions, and deliver production systems that create clear business value
Lead and scale a GenAI-native Applied AI organization: Build, mentor, and manage multiple teams of Applied AI Engineers and ML Engineers who are native to modern GenAI technologies, agentic systems, and multimodal models
Set technical and strategic direction: Define best practices for agent development, evaluation, deployment, and iteration across customer engagements and internal product efforts
Bridge frontier research to real-world applications: Translate advances in LLMs, multimodal models, and agentic workflows into practical, scalable solutions across industries
Discover model limitations and inspire innovation: Identify failure modes, inefficiencies, and gaps in current models
use these insights to influence internal research, product roadmaps, and customer strategy
Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Product, Research, Sales, and Leadership to shape Applied AI offerings, prioritize investments, and guide long-term platform evolution
Influence the broader AI ecosystem: Represent Scale’s Applied AI capabilities with customers and partners, and help position Scale as a trusted leader in enterprise GenAI deployment

What we offer

Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
retirement benefits
a learning and development stipend
generous PTO
equity based compensation
commuter stipend

Fulltime

New

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

This is a high-leverage leadership role that spans architecture, execution, and ...

Location

India , Bengaluru

Salary:

Not provided

Ema

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s (or PhD) degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field
A strong track record (usually 10-12+ years) of applied experience with ML techniques, especially in large-scale settings
Experience building production ML systems that operate at scale (latency / throughput / cost constraints)
Experience in Knowledge retrieval and Search space
Exposure in building Agentic Systems and Frameworks
Proficiency in relevant programming languages (e.g. Python, C++, Java) and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
Strong understanding of the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, serving, monitoring, maintenance
Experience designing systems for monitoring, diagnostics, logging, model versioning, etc.
Deep knowledge of computational trade-offs: distributed training, inference, optimizations (e.g. quantization, pruning, batching)
Excellent communication skills

Job Responsibility

Lead the technical direction of GenAI and agentic ML systems that power enterprise-grade AI agents — spanning reasoning, retrieval, tool use, and integrations across various SaaS products
Architect, design, and implement scalable production pipelines for model training, fine-tuning, retrieval (RAG), agent orchestration, and evaluation — ensuring robustness, latency efficiency, and continuous learning
Define and own the multi-year ML roadmap for GenAI infrastructure — including agent frameworks, RAG systems, world-class evaluation loops, and integration with MCP, browser, and vision pipelines
Identify and integrate cutting-edge ML methods / research (deep learning, large models, recommender systems, LLMs, etc.) into Ema’s products or infrastructure
Research, prototype, and integrate cutting-edge ML and LLM advancements (reasoning, memory architectures, multi-modal perception, long-context models, autonomous agents) into the platform
Optimize trade-offs between accuracy, latency, cost, interpretability, and real-world reliability across the agent lifecycle — from prompt design to orchestration and execution
Champion engineering excellence — drive observability, reproducibility, versioning, testing, and bias-aware development across ML and agentic systems
Mentor and elevate senior engineers and researchers, fostering a culture of scientific rigor, experimentation, and system-level thinking
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infra, and research teams to align ML innovation with enterprise needs — enabling secure integrations, privacy-aware deployments, and scalable use cases
Influence data strategy — guide how retrieval indices, embeddings, structured/unstructured corpora, and feedback loops evolve to improve grounding, factuality, and reasoning depth

Fulltime

Machine Learning Research Engineer, GenAI Applied ML

Scale

Location:
United States , San Francisco ▼
New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

Job Description:

Job Responsibility:

Requirements:

Nice to have:

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 20, 2026

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Similar Jobs for Machine Learning Research Engineer, GenAI Applied ML

Research Engineer, GenAI

Machine Learning Tech Lead, GenAI

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

ML Tech Lead, GenAI

AI Application Engineer

Engineer 2, Machine Learning

Director, Applied AI Engineering- Enterprise

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Research Engineer, GenAI Applied ML

Scale

Location:United States , San Francisco ▼New York

Category:IT - Software Development

Contract Type:Not provided

Salary:

Job Description:

Job Responsibility:

Requirements:

Nice to have:

Additional Information:

Job Posted:February 20, 2026

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Similar Jobs for Machine Learning Research Engineer, GenAI Applied ML

Research Engineer, GenAI

Machine Learning Tech Lead, GenAI

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

ML Tech Lead, GenAI

AI Application Engineer

Engineer 2, Machine Learning

Director, Applied AI Engineering- Enterprise

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Location:
United States , San Francisco ▼
New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Job Posted:
February 20, 2026