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Machine Learning Engineer

196k – 221kMountain View, CAHybrid3+ YOE
Summary

Lead projects building and deploying large-scale ASR/NLP/LLM systems for meeting intelligence. Architect training, fine-tuning, and inference pipelines using PyTorch/JAX and own ML systems from research to production.

About the role

Your Impact

  • Architect, build, and evolve large-scale SID / ASR / NLP / LLM systems that power mission-critical product experiences including summarization, chat, and speech understanding across millions of conversations.
  • Lead the design and implementation of training, fine-tuning, post-training, and inference strategies for large language and speech models using PyTorch and/or JAX, making principled trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Design and improve model architectures, loss functions, decoding strategies, and training techniques for speech and language models, informed by both research and production constraints.
  • Own end-to-end ML system lifecycles, from research prototyping through production deployment, monitoring, iteration, and long-term maintenance.
  • Partner deeply with product, and infrastructure teams to develop and translate cutting-edge research into scalable, production-grade systems that deliver measurable user and business impact.
  • Drive system-level improvements in model performance, robustness, observability, and operational excellence using real-world conversational data at scale.
  • Set technical direction and best practices for ML infrastructure, data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and deployment workflows in a cloud environment.
  • Identify and resolve complex, ambiguous problems in model behavior, data quality, scaling, and system interactions, often before they surface as user-visible issues.
  • Mentor and elevate other engineers, influencing team standards, reviewing designs, and contributing to a culture of strong technical decision-making and execution.

We're Looking for Someone Who

  • Holds a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant industry experience; PhD is preferred.
  • Has deep, hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and post-training large language models or other foundation models, including an understanding of failure modes and trade-offs.
  • Demonstrates strong command of modern ML research, with the ability to critically evaluate new papers and decide what is production-worthy versus experimental.
  • Has interest in creating innovation and advancing applied research.
  • Has extensive experience deploying, monitoring, and operating ML systems in production, including model versioning, rollback strategies, and performance regression detection.
  • Is comfortable working with large-scale speech and conversational datasets, including data preprocessing, augmentation, quality analysis, and labeling strategies to support model training and evaluation.
  • Has experience scaling ML systems across training, inference, and serving infrastructure while balancing cost, latency, and reliability constraints.
  • Is highly effective at cross-functional collaboration, working end-to-end with product, infra, research, and data teams to deliver outcomes—not just models.
  • Can lead technical projects independently, driving clarity in ambiguous problem spaces and making sound architectural decisions.
  • Has experience with or strong interest in agentic systems, tool-use frameworks, or multi-model orchestration.
  • Has significant experience with at least one of the following areas: (1) Speech recognition (ASR), (2) Text-to-speech (TTS), (3) Multimodal (speech/text) foundation models, or (4) modern LLM NLP tasks (e.g., summarization, dialogue, speech understanding), especially in real-world production settings.
  • Experience with personalization, recommendation systems, or user modeling is a plus.
Skills
PyTorchJAXASRNLPLLMMachine LearningSpeech RecognitionModel TrainingModel Fine-tuningModel Deployment
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