Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer - Stealth Startup, San FranciscoEmployment type: Full-timeAbout us We're an early-stage San Francisco startup building an AI-powered marketplace for electric vehicles. We're using machine learning to make buying and selling EVs simpler, faster, and more transparent, and we're hiring engineers who want to own real production systems from day one.The role As a Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build, ship, and run the models and ML services behind our marketplace. You'll own work end to end: data and features, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring in production. You'll work closely with product, data, and full-stack engineers, and you'll have a direct hand in shaping our ML platform as we grow.What you'll doDesign, train, and deploy ML models that power core marketplace experiences, such as search, ranking, recommendations, pricing, and AI-assisted product featuresBuild and maintain production ML services and pipelines, including feature pipelines, model serving, and monitoringBuild applied AI and LLM-powered product features where they add real value for buyers and sellersOwn model quality in production: evaluation, experimentation, retraining, and reliabilityHelp set ML engineering standards and tooling for a small, fast-moving teamWhat we're looking for (required)3+ years of hands-on experience as an ML/AI engineer building production ML systems (not research-only)A track record of shipping models or ML services to production and owning them after launchStrong Python, used in production ML/AI workHands-on experience with modern ML frameworks and tooling (for example PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn), plus feature pipelines and model servingBased in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to work onsite in San FranciscoBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical fieldA history of sustained ownership in prior roles (multi-year tenure preferred)Nice to have6-12 years of relevant engineering experienceExperience with marketplaces, recommendations, search, or ranking systemsExperience building LLM or applied AI product featuresExperience in automotive, EV, or mobility productsDegree from a top computer science programWhat we offerBase salary of $200,000 - $240,000, plus equityHigh ownership and direct impact at an early-stage company#J-18808-Ljbffr