Rational Dynamics

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Rational Dynamics

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BerkeleyCaliforniaUnited 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