Founding Machine Learning Engineer
Raydar
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-21
Salary: USD 175,000–300,000
Workplace: on_site
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.
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.
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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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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