Staff Backend Software Engineer at Saris AI | San Francisco

Join Our Team as a Machine Learning EngineerSaris-AI is a pioneering applied AI startup, based in San Francisco and Montreal, focused on revolutionizing the banking sector. Our mission is to address a colossal $100 billion/year challenge that is rapidly expanding, innovating the limits of what can be achieved with advanced multi-turn AI systems.We aim to automate complex workflows that necessitate long-context reasoning, orchestration of tools across legacy systems, and rigorous compliance processes—solving problems that currently lack definitive solutions.Our team has successfully deployed AI agents that manage real customer workflows effectively in production. As we expand our customer base and accelerate our growth, we are in search of highly skilled technical builders who aspire to make a significant impact in the early stages of our journey.As a foundational Machine Learning Engineer, you will own our entire ML stack and bring custom agents to life.

Saris AI develops advanced AI automation for the banking sector, with teams in San Francisco, Montreal, and Toronto. The company addresses large-scale automation challenges, focusing on long-context reasoning, integrating with legacy systems, and meeting strict compliance needs. Saris AI’s AI agents are already active in production, supporting real customer workflows as the business expands. Role overview The San Francisco engineering team is seeking an Engineering Manager. This leader will guide engineers through shifting priorities and frequent ambiguity. The position involves building and leading teams, managing projects from concept to launch, and ensuring the delivery of reliable software that powers AI-driven products. What you will do Build and lead engineering teams focused on automation and AI Oversee software projects from initial idea through production launch Adapt to changing requirements and priorities as the company grows Address the technical challenges unique to deploying software in AI systems Requirements Proven experience building and leading engineering teams History of delivering software projects from start to finish Comfort working in environments where priorities and requirements shift quickly Understanding of the complexities involved in AI-driven software deployment Location This role is based in San Francisco.

Join Saris AI as an AI Systems Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing innovative solutions that leverage artificial intelligence technologies. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop AI systems that enhance our products and services, driving impactful results for our clients.

About the RoleJoin our innovative team at saris-ai, a pioneering applied AI startup based in San Francisco and Montreal. We are on a mission to redefine the banking industry by addressing a $100 billion annual challenge that is rapidly evolving. Our cutting-edge multi-turn AI agentic systems are at the forefront of this transformation.Our objective is to develop automated solutions that require sophisticated long-context reasoning, seamless tool integration across legacy systems, and stringent compliance mechanisms, particularly in scenarios where conventional answers are elusive.With successful real-world deployments and a rapidly expanding client base, we are seeking passionate and technically adept builders eager to make a significant impact from the start.We are in search of an AI Sales Engineer who will play a pivotal role in enhancing productivity and efficiency within financial institutions through innovative AI solutions. In this role, you will lead discovery calls with various departments to identify workflow challenges and design impactful AI-driven solutions. You will serve as the technical authority during sales cycles, assisting clients in recognizing problems, framing solutions, and articulating ROI.This position combines elements of customer engagement and workflow analysis.Your Key Responsibilities Include:Conduct discovery and technical scoping calls with potential clients to uncover operational inefficiencies in financial institutions.Develop workflow maps and reports to identify bottlenecks and pinpoint opportunities for agentic AI automation.Collaborate with the Sales team to co-manage the pre-sales process from initial discovery to proposal delivery.Engage with executive stakeholders, presenting clear and compelling insights on how Agentic AI can deliver measurable ROI and transform operations at scale.Work closely with cross-functional teams including sales, customer success, and product to ensure customer satisfaction and success.

Saris AI develops applied AI solutions for the banking sector, with teams in San Francisco, Montreal, and Toronto. The company builds automation tools that handle complex, long-context reasoning and agent-driven decision-making. Reliability and compliance shape every product, and Saris AI's agents already manage real customer workflows in production. As revenue grows, the engineering team is expanding to enhance current offerings and explore new directions. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer role is based in San Francisco and sits within the core engineering group. The team works in a collaborative, early-stage setting, balancing infrastructure needs with the delivery of features that serve customers directly. What you will do Build and maintain machine learning infrastructure, such as evaluation frameworks, prompt management systems, and tools for model observability. Develop new AI features for customers while supporting and improving the underlying infrastructure. Shape strategies for evaluation, LLM routing, prompt engineering, and model selection. Set practical standards to boost quality without slowing down development. Guide technical direction by clarifying trade-offs and architectural choices. Requirements Minimum 4 years of experience in machine learning or AI engineering, including production deployment of ML systems. Direct experience with large language models, prompt engineering, evaluation techniques, and model routing. Background in building tools and systems that deliver value to users. Comfort making pragmatic trade-offs and recognizing when a solution is sufficient. Ability to navigate ambiguity, define problems, and deliver results independently. Strong focus on end users and understanding the impact of ML decisions on customer experience. Supports team growth through code reviews, collaboration, and clear technical communication. Bonus Experience in regulated industries, especially banking.

About the RoleJoin Saris-AI, an innovative applied AI startup based in San Francisco and Montreal, where we are revolutionizing the banking industry. Our mission is to address a $100 billion annual challenge, growing rapidly each quarter, as we explore the potential of advanced multi-turn AI systems.We focus on automation challenges that require extensive contextual reasoning, tool integration with existing systems, and adherence to compliance requirements—problems that lack straightforward solutions.Our successful deployment of real AI agents managing customer workflows has led to a burgeoning client base, and we are expanding quickly. We seek highly skilled technical professionals who aspire to make a significant impact from the outset.Core Engineering TeamWe are in search of a passionate Software Developer who excels in dynamic and ambiguous settings. You should have experience guiding products from the initial version to large-scale implementation, and a penchant for crafting sustainable, elegant systems.Your Key ResponsibilitiesConceive, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance AI-driven software solutions tailored for the fintech sector.Manage project timelines effectively, prioritizing tasks to deliver exceptional features.Contribute to product and business strategies as a key player, influencing both technical frameworks and overarching goals.Encourage and uphold best practices, including code reviews and testing.Candidate ProfileProven experience in backend/fullstack engineering, particularly within SaaS projects with significant impact.Extensive knowledge of Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), TypeScript (React), Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).Solid track record in designing, constructing, and optimizing distributed systems.Strong foundation in both relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Redis).Expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL) and deployment practices.Preferred QualificationsExperience building intricate workflow orchestration systems.Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.Background in creating integrations or data pipelines.A passion for mentoring and developing team capabilities.

Saris AI, based in San Francisco with teams in Montreal and Toronto, develops advanced agentic AI systems for the banking industry. The company focuses on automating complex workflows that require long-context reasoning, integration with legacy systems, and strict compliance. With live AI agents already supporting real customer operations, Saris AI is expanding quickly and seeking technical leaders who want to shape the future of work in banking. Role overview This is a hands-on leadership position within the core engineering team in San Francisco. The Machine Learning Engineering Lead will guide machine learning systems from initial concept through scaling, helping define both the technical vision and the supporting infrastructure. What you will do Oversee the ML/AI function end to end, setting technical direction and standards across the company. Design and supervise development of multi-modal, agentic AI systems that power live customer workflows. Build and manage evaluation frameworks, datasets, and metrics to improve agent performance. Drive productionization of ML systems with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and compliance. Recruit, develop, and mentor a high-performing ML team, fostering strong practices in modeling, experimentation, and deployment. Requirements 8+ years of experience in machine learning or AI engineering, including time as a technical lead or manager. Proven track record leading ML projects from concept to production deployment. Expertise with large language models (LLMs) and/or agentic systems, especially in customer-facing products. Strong grasp of ML fundamentals: deep learning, transformers, model evaluation, and trade-offs. Hands-on experience scaling ML systems in production, with a focus on monitoring, iteration, and reliability. Ability to lead engineering teams, influence architecture, and set technical direction. Comfort working in early-stage, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environments.

About Liquid AIFounded as a spin-off from MIT CSAIL, Liquid AI specializes in creating versatile AI systems designed for optimal performance across various deployment platforms, including data center accelerators and on-device hardware. Our technology emphasizes low latency, minimal memory consumption, privacy, and dependability. We collaborate with leading enterprises in sectors such as consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services. As we experience rapid growth, we are on the lookout for exceptional talent to join our team.The OpportunityThe Data team at Liquid AI drives the development of our Liquid Foundation Models, focusing on pre-training, vision, audio, and emerging modalities. With the stagnation of public data sources, the effectiveness of our models increasingly relies on specially curated datasets. We are seeking engineers with a machine learning mindset who can efficiently gather, filter, and synthesize high-quality data at scale.At Liquid AI, we regard data as a research challenge rather than an infrastructural issue. Our engineers conduct experiments, design ablations, and assess how data-related decisions impact model quality. We will align you with a team where you can experience rapid growth and make a significant impact, be it in pre-training, post-training reinforcement learning, vision-language, audio, or multimodal applications.While we prefer candidates in San Francisco and Boston, we are open to considering other locations.What We're Looking ForWe are in search of a candidate who:Thinks like a researcher and executes like an engineer: You should be able to formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments, and evaluate results. Our engineers produce research-level code while our researchers implement production systems.Learns quickly and adapts: You will be working in rapidly evolving modalities, so the ability to quickly grasp new domains and thrive in ambiguity is essential.Prioritizes data quality: We hold data quality in high regard; tasks such as filtering, deduplication, augmentation, and evaluation are key responsibilities, not afterthoughts.Solves problems autonomously: Data engineers operate within training groups (pre-training and multimodal). While collaboration is crucial, we expect ownership and self-direction.The WorkDevelop and maintain data processing, filtering, and selection pipelines at scale.Establish pipelines for pretraining, midtraining, supervised fine-tuning, and preference optimization datasets.Design synthetic data generation systems utilizing large language models (LLMs), structured prompting, and domain-specific generative techniques.

Join a pioneering team of former Google engineers who have developed ground-breaking defensive technologies, such as Safe Browsing and reCAPTCHA. We are on a mission to confront an urgent challenge: combating the rising tide of adversarial AI attacks that threaten organizations globally.Operating in stealth mode, we are targeting a lucrative $5B+ market that is primed for innovation. Conventional detection methodologies are proving inadequate against the speed and sophistication of AI-driven assaults. Current adversaries are leveraging AI to engineer tailored, high-evasion attacks, leaving traditional systems vulnerable.Your Role:You will design a network of AI agents that are rapid, cost-effective, and precise, collaborating to identify and neutralize emerging threats. Your work will dive deep into real-time threat data, continuously evolving your agents in a fast-paced environment. These agents will function under an orchestration layer that fosters quick adaptation and learning.The Excitement of the ChallengeRapidly Evolving Models: The landscape changes daily; solutions that worked yesterday may be outdated today.Intelligent Adversaries: We are engaged in a real-time arms race against cunning, AI-enhanced attackers crafting sophisticated payloads.No Existing Playbook: We are forging new detection paradigms as swiftly as threats evolve. This high-stakes work places you in the heart of the action from day one.If you thrive on solving challenging problems with rapid feedback, this is your opportunity.Why We Are Positioned to SucceedExpansive Market: The market is vast at $5B and expanding quickly, while established players struggle to adapt.Proven Track Record: Our team has previously developed the foundational technology for Safe Browsing (serving over 5B users) and reCAPTCHA (protecting more than 5M websites) during our time at Google.Experienced Team: This is our third endeavor in creating a category-defining security enterprise, and we know how to scale our technology and our organization effectively.Deeply Integrated AI and Security: We embed AI from the outset rather than layering it on top.Top Talent: We hire only the highest achievers; many on our team were in the top 1% of engineers at Google. If you excelled in your previous role, you will fit right in.Agility: We prioritize speed and efficiency in everything we do.

Join Retell AI as a Senior Machine Learning EngineerRetell AI is at the forefront of revolutionizing the call center industry using groundbreaking voice AI technology. Within just 18 months of our inception, we have empowered thousands of businesses with our AI voice agents capable of managing sales, support, and logistics calls that traditionally required extensive human teams.Supported by renowned investors, including Y Combinator and Alt Capital, our journey has seen us scale from $5M to an impressive $36M ARR with a dedicated team of 20. Our ambition for 2026 is to develop a state-of-the-art customer experience platform, transforming entire contact centers with AI. We are building intelligent AI “workers” that will serve as frontline agents, quality assurance analysts, and managers—constantly executing, monitoring, and enhancing customer interactions.We are rapidly expanding and seeking passionate innovators eager to solve complex technical challenges and make a tangible impact in one of the fastest-growing voice AI startups. Together, let's shape the future of customer interactions.

About VSCO At VSCO, we empower photographers with an innovative platform that provides essential tools, a vibrant community, and the visibility needed for creative and professional growth. We cultivate an authentic creative environment that welcomes photographers of all skill levels, offering a space that inspires opportunity, collaboration, and connection. Our mission is to support photographers in their journeys, enabling them to thrive and connect with fellow creatives and businesses through our comprehensive suite of tools, available on both mobile and desktop. We seek individuals who are passionate and proactive in advancing our mission. Our team members have the opportunity to make a significant impact, and we believe that collaborative efforts yield stronger results. Our core values are essential to our team culture and guide our hiring process. Learn more about what you can expect when joining VSCO on our Careers Page. About The Role As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will harness the power of AI and machine learning to create innovative, reliable user-facing product features. You will leverage your extensive technical background and hands-on experience in deploying machine learning models to deliver impactful solutions based on real-world feedback. Your focus on measurable outcomes and customer satisfaction drives your work, blending innovation with practical implementation. You will be highly skilled in Python and adept across the data and machine learning stack, enabling you to develop and launch models efficiently while ensuring scalability and maintainability. Whether working with traditional algorithms or cutting-edge deep learning and generative AI, you will expertly navigate the complexity of each problem, managing every phase from defining the challenge to deployment and iterative improvement. Your dedication to software engineering excellence will inform your thoughtful approach to system design for machine learning, encompassing data quality, pipeline design, feature workflows, model serving, and ongoing monitoring and enhancement. By integrating machine learning deeply within our cohesive product experiences, you will collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, aligning on objectives, defining success metrics, and driving meaningful outcomes. You will stay informed about the rapidly evolving AI landscape, maintaining a discerning perspective that allows your team to focus on significant advancements while avoiding distractions. The Day to Day Design and implement ML-powered features for search, discovery, personalization, and more.

Job OverviewJoin Eragon as a Machine Learning Engineer and lead the charge in transforming innovative AI models into scalable, production-grade systems. This position is pivotal in bridging research and real-world applications by designing and optimizing systems that enhance vital workflows throughout the enterprise.In collaboration with our research, product, and engineering teams, you will convert cutting-edge capabilities into dependable, high-performance systems ready for production.Key ResponsibilitiesModel Development & Deployment: Craft, refine, and deploy machine learning models within production settings.Systems Engineering: Architect scalable pipelines for training, inference, evaluation, and comprehensive monitoring.Performance Optimization: Enhance the latency, throughput, cost-efficiency, and reliability of ML systems.Data & Infrastructure: Manipulate large datasets and ensure seamless integration of models with internal systems and APIs.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end AI functionalities.Evaluation & Monitoring: Develop robust evaluation frameworks and feedback loops to ensure system effectiveness.

At Sciforium, we are pioneering the future of AI infrastructure by creating cutting-edge multimodal AI models and a proprietary, high-efficiency serving platform. With substantial financial backing and direct support from AMD engineers, our team is rapidly expanding as we develop the comprehensive stack that drives advanced AI models and real-time applications.About the RoleIn the capacity of a Machine Learning Engineer, you will engage with the entire foundation-model stack, encompassing pretraining and scaling, post-training and Reinforcement Learning, sandbox environments for evaluation and agentic learning, and deployment + inference optimization. You’ll have the opportunity to rapidly iterate on research ideas, contribute to production-grade infrastructure, and help deliver models capable of addressing real-world challenges at scale.Your ResponsibilitiesThis position offers diverse tracks - candidates can specialize or contribute across multiple areas. Key responsibilities include:Pretraining & ScalingTrain expansive byte-native foundation models utilizing vast, heterogeneous data sources.Formulate stable training methodologies and scaling laws tailored for innovative architectures.Enhance throughput, memory efficiency, and resource utilization across extensive GPU clusters.Establish and maintain distributed training infrastructures alongside fault-tolerant pipelines.Post-training & Reinforcement LearningBuild out post-training frameworks (SFT, preference optimization, RLHF/RLAIF, RL).Curate and produce specialized datasets aimed at enhancing specific model capabilities.Develop reward models and evaluation systems to facilitate ongoing improvements.Investigate inference-time learning and computational strategies to boost performance.Sandbox Environments & EvaluationCreate scalable sandbox environments for agent assessment and learning.Generate realistic, high-signal automated evaluations for reasoning, tool usage, and safety.Design both offline and online environments that support RL-style training at scale.Implement instrumentation for observability, reproducibility, and rapid iteration.Deployment & Inference OptimizationOptimize deployment strategies to ensure models are efficient and effective in real-world applications.

About SentryAt Sentry, we recognize that poor software experiences are all too common, and we are determined to change that. Our mission is to empower developers to create better software more efficiently, allowing everyone to reconnect with the joy of technology.With over $217 million in funding and a community of more than 100,000 organizations, including industry giants like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian, we are pioneering performance and error monitoring solutions. Our tools enable companies to spend less time addressing bugs and more time innovating.Sentry promotes a hybrid work environment across our global hubs, designating Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays as in-office collaboration days. If you are passionate about creating solutions that enhance the digital experience, we invite you to join us in developing the next generation of software monitoring tools.About the RoleAs a Staff Machine Learning Engineer within Sentry’s AI/ML team, you will take the lead in developing advanced models and agents that enhance our products' intelligence and functionality. This pivotal role involves integrating AI and machine learning into our core offerings, including issue triage and resolution, as well as predictive analytics for application performance monitoring. Your contributions will enable organizations worldwide to derive actionable insights from their software, helping them to create superior products at an accelerated pace.In This Role You WillCreate cutting-edge agentic AI systems for triaging, debugging, and resolving real-world production challenges.Utilize Sentry’s extensive dataset of errors, spans, and profiles to inform your work.Lead the charge on significant AI/ML initiatives within the organization.You Will Thrive in This Role If YouAre motivated by making a meaningful impact and enjoy high-stakes, visible projects.Have a passion for building and will embrace the opportunity to be a founding member of the AI/ML team.Excel in cross-functional collaboration, working alongside developers and product teams to create features.

About LightfieldLightfield is an innovative, AI-powered CRM that seamlessly integrates with your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and transforms it into organized context, including accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and valuable insights, ensuring that nothing is overlooked.We are fundamentally reimagining CRM by focusing on the actual workflows of teams rather than imposing rigid systems. Lightfield learns from real-world usage, automating processes and surfacing insights that drive business growth. We’re creating the CRM platform we’ve always envisioned: fast, intelligent, and genuinely supportive.Supported by notable investors such as Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, our team has a rich background, having previously developed Tome, a generative AI presentation tool utilized by over 25 million users. Many of us have experience with leading companies such as Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce.About the RoleAs a key member of Lightfield's AI/ML team, you will play a vital role in crafting the core experiences of our product, developing cutting-edge applications that delight our customers.Currently, our focus is on building a powerful, domain-specific AI that surpasses generic LLMs.We thrive on the challenge of creating groundbreaking AI products for professionals engaged in serious work, and we are eager to expand our AI/ML team to meet these ambitious goals.What You'll DoDevelop and deliver exceptional, unique AI experiences that sales teams will be excited to use.Collaborate with founders and executives to shape Lightfield's AI/ML strategy.Identify user needs suitable for AI/ML solutions, articulate challenges, and work closely with product leaders to devise solutions.Prototype innovative, LLM-powered experiences and guide their development into reliable product features.Contribute to building a world-class AI/ML engineering team through recruitment and mentorship.Who You ArePossess a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or Applied Mathematics.Have over 5 years of experience in developing AI/ML products, particularly in Natural Language Processing (NLP).Demonstrate a solid understanding of deep learning AI/ML frameworks and cloud services.Bring hands-on experience in ML Operations (ML Ops).Bonus PointsExperience leading AI/ML product initiatives...

About the RoleJoin Onyx, an esteemed open-source project that has captivated hundreds of thousands of users. With over 10,000 stars and a vibrant community of over 3,000 members on platforms like Slack and Discord, your contributions could impact millions in the future. Your ImpactAs a Machine Learning Engineer at Onyx, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our knowledge layer on top of Large Language Models (LLMs). You will tackle complex challenges such as multi-hop question answering, needle-in-haystack retrieval, and advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement knowledge graphs based on LLMs, exploring advanced RAG methods and cutting-edge information retrieval algorithms.Enhance user experience through innovative features like feedback learning, personalized search, and Subject Matter Expert (SME) suggestions.Develop a semantic understanding of organizational priorities to improve Onyx's answering capabilities.Manage projects from initial conception through validation to production deployment.Collaborate closely with our Founders and Head of AI to shape product direction and contribute to our AI/ML strategy. Success Criteria3+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, focusing on real-world applications.In-depth expertise with PyTorch/TensorFlow, natural language processing (NLP) models, and standard machine learning algorithms.Stay current with advancements in open-source and proprietary LLMs, RAG, and agent frameworks.Strong software engineering skills, capable of building backend features using web frameworks, ORMs, and relational databases.Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.⭐ Bonus SkillsFamiliarity with full-stack technologies, including TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, and PostgreSQL.Passion for writing technical blogs to position Onyx as a leader in the field.

About ApiphanyApiphany is an innovative AI company dedicated to advancing physical product development. We empower global leaders in industries such as automotive, aerospace, medtech, and energy to convert vast amounts of unstructured technical data into immediate, actionable insights. Supported by elite investors including Markforged, Databricks, GM, and Character, our mission is to transform engineering decision-making, simplifying complexity for the world's premier manufacturers.Our models are meticulously crafted to address the unique challenges of engineering and manufacturing. They are designed to comprehend principles of physics, design specifications, and program constraints. Our team is a select group of experts from prestigious institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, UW, and CMU, alongside veterans from GM, Ford, and Genesis Therapeutics. We are committed to redefining hard-tech and constructing a category-defining enterprise together.About the RoleAs a Machine Learning Engineer at Apiphany, you will architect and deploy cutting-edge machine learning models to address some of the most intricate challenges within the physical domain. You will create systems capable of reasoning with complex engineering data, developing AI that grasps physics, design limitations, and real-world performance trade-offs.This role is tailored for innovators eager to expand the horizons of AI applications in the tangible world.

Join Reducto as a Machine Learning EngineerAt Reducto, we empower AI teams to harness real-world enterprise data with unparalleled precision.Much of the enterprise data—ranging from financial documents to healthcare records—remains trapped in unstructured formats such as PDFs and spreadsheets. Our vision models are designed to interpret these documents in a human-like manner, enabling the development of innovative products, training of machine learning models, and automation of processes on a large scale.Our rapid growth is a testament to our success, having achieved a staggering 7x year-over-year revenue increase, collaborating with numerous companies from prominent AI teams like Harvey, Vanta, and Scale to major enterprises including FAANG and leading trading firms.With over $100 million raised from esteemed investors such as A16z, Benchmark, and First Round Capital, we are on the lookout for a talented Machine Learning Engineer to assist in training and deploying models crucial for our core product's success.

Join Our Team as a Machine Learning Engineer for AssessmentsAt Speak, we're on a mission to transform the language learning experience.Learning a new language has the power to enrich lives, facilitating connections with diverse cultures, career opportunities, and communities. With two billion people worldwide engaged in language studies, the traditional one-on-one tutoring approach remains challenging to scale and has seen little innovation over the years. Speak is revolutionizing this space by offering an AI-powered, human-like tutoring experience that prioritizes conversation. Our platform allows learners to practice speaking, receive instant feedback, and progress through expertly crafted lessons, ensuring a seamless journey from beginner to confident speaker in multiple languages.Since our inception in South Korea in 2019, Speak has rapidly ascended to become the leading language learning app, serving learners across various markets with 15+ languages. Backed by over $150 million in venture funding from prominent investors such as OpenAI, Accel, and Khosla Ventures, our distributed team spans San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.About the RoleWe are seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer for Assessments to spearhead the development of top-tier assessment systems across our diverse product lines, including Speak for Business and B2C offerings. You will collaborate closely with our Assessment Design Lead, along with teams in Machine Learning, Product, and Engineering, to translate assessment frameworks and rubrics into robust, scalable scoring and feedback systems.This role will encompass the implementation, deployment, and continual enhancement of our assessment algorithms and ML systems. While immediate focus will be on refining and expanding current assessments, the work will also contribute to a foundational capability that can be leveraged across our platform.Your ResponsibilitiesLead the development of assessment ML systems end-to-endDesign, deploy, and maintain scoring models and pipelines (feature extraction, model training, inference, feedback generation).Oversee monitoring, regression tests, and iterative improvements to ensure accuracy standards are met.Establish and implement evaluation frameworksCreate validation and evaluation structures for assessments, incorporating metrics, test sets, and both offline and online analyses.Convert assessment needs into quantifiable acceptance criteria and safeguards.