
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Rational Dynamics
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berkeley • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $215,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own, extend, and improve production ML systems: training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, model serving infrastructure, and monitoring.
- Optimize models for latency, cost, and reliability with a bias toward correctness in environments where errors are not recoverable
- Translate research experiments into production-grade capability that solves real customer problems
- Design and maintain evaluation and testing infrastructure to enable fast, high quality research and deployment
- Integrate third-party model APIs and LLM orchestration frameworks into the platform
- Support the deployment of agents into complex, high-stakes enterprise environments
- Continuously improve system performance through disciplined benchmarking and iteration
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining ML systems in production
- Track record of shipping ML systems where reliability and correctness were non-negotiable
- Command of machine learning fundamentals and modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
- Strong skills in latency and cost optimization at scale
- Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in at least one of C++, Rust, or Go
- Comfort operating on a small team with minimal process, high ownership, and significant ambiguity
- Demonstrated experience deploying ML solutions in real production environments serving end users or customers.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and AD&D insurance
- 20 days of paid time off
- 9 sick days
- 401(k) plan with a company match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningdeep learningPyTorchJAXPythonC++RustGomodel optimizationbenchmarking
Soft Skills
ownershipadaptabilityproblem-solvingteam collaborationcommunicationdisciplineambiguity managementreliability focuscorrectness focushigh-stakes decision making