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Staff ML Engineer

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TypefacePalo Alto, CA, US10 months agoWebsite
Staff / Principal
Engineering

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What You’ll Do

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer/Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for building machine learning models/systems and innovative web applications that deliver the power of Generative AI to our customers. You will work closely with designers, product managers and other engineers driving the technical designs and implementations.  

How You'll Make an Impact

  • Define the roadmap for generation of various content types including text, image, audio and video enabling us to generate brand-affinized, hyper-personalized, and safe content 
  • Own the delivery of key business, product and technology initiatives across design, specification, development, testing, and launch. 
  • Establish and implement processes for model training, fine-tuning, testing, and operating the Generative AI models at significant scale. 
  • Investigate, prototype and deliver innovative solutions 
  • Collaborate with other engineers, Product and Business Teams to identify new ways to improve our product and drive growth 
  • Establish a data-driven development culture by driving the definition, tracking, and operationalizing of feature, product, and company-level metrics

What You Bring

  • 10+ years of prior experience designing, building and scaling systems for training, testing, and running Machine Learning models at scale 
  • Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Experience with building and evolving ML Training and Inferencing systems at significant scale with a purpose of solving real-world problems.
  • Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects
  • Proficiency in Python, C/C++ (or equivalent)
  • Ability to create self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and passionate about prototyping 
  • Prior experience with AzureML, GCP Vertex, AWS Sagemaker or similar platforms
  • Bonus: Hands-on experience in deploying and tuning Generative AI models in cloud or on local system
  • Bonus: Experience working at a high-growth startup or tech company
  • Bonus: Publications and research experiences in ML venues and/or vision/language applications

Location

This is a hybrid role based in our Palo Alto HQ. We collaborate in-office 3 days a week. 

Base Salary

The range for this role is $190,000-$234,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. 

Stack

PythonC++Generative AIAWSGCPMachine LearningFine-tuning
Posted
Aug 19, 2025
Last seen
Jun 25, 2026
First seen
Jun 25, 2026
Status
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