Staff Machine Learning Engineer
mural groupMadison (WI)
$230,000–$300,000
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mural groupMadison (WI)
SENIORITY
Lead
SALARY
$230,000–$300,000
About the role
Location: Remote (US)
Pay: $230,000–$300,000 + bonus + equity
A late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company is hiring a Staff ML Engineer to set the technical direction for its agent systems. This is model and systems work that ships to large enterprise customers, not a thin layer over someone else's API.
What you'll do:
Design multi-step LLM systems: reasoning, retrieval, planning and tool useOwn evaluation, from offline benchmarks to online experiments and model-graded reviewFind and fix failure modes such as hallucination and tool misuseSet the quality, latency and cost targets the team builds againstMentor senior engineers and shape how the group worksWhat you bring 7+ years shipping ML in production, including LLMs at scaleLed the design of complex, multi-step LLM systemsDepth in transformers, embeddings and retrievalEvaluation experience beyond single promptsPyTorch or similar, on distributed cloud infrastructureBS in CS or a related field; MS or PhD a plusNice to have: ML shipped before LLMs, then moved into generative AI; detailed retrieval work (chunking, reranking, evals) Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.
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