Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

adaption

Machine Learning Engineer identifying and building solutions for customer challenges. Engaging deeply in understanding their data workflows and improving ML products.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Find and Unlock Alpha: Go deep on customer problems and data workflows to identify the highest-leverage opportunities others miss, then build the solutions that capture them.
Ship What's Missing: When the product doesn't cover it, you do. Identify gaps through hands-on customer engagement and implement production-grade ML solutions that fill them.
Raise the Bar: Develop compelling demos, deliver technical presentations to senior stakeholders, and set the standard for what great looks like across our customer base.
Own the Outcome: You're not handing off a deck — you're a strategic and technical partner from discovery through deployment, accountable for results.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
Strong software engineering skills and familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
Solid understanding of data modeling for training and how curation decisions shape model performance
Experience training or fine-tuning models using human feedback, reward signals, or other adaptive learning techniques
Excellent communication skills and ability to operate across varied customer environments and tech stacks
A mindset of ownership, curiosity, and a bias toward action.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work: In-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and quarterly offsites.
Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited. We're building intelligence that evolves alongside you, so we encourage you to keep expanding your horizons.
Lunch Stipend: Weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.
Well-Being: Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringmachine learningdata modelingmodel trainingmodel fine-tuningadaptive learning techniquesPyTorchJAXTensorFlow

Soft Skills

communicationownershipcuriositybias toward action