Applied Machine Learning Engineer

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High-Growth Data Startup is looking for a Machine Learning Software Engineer to join their growing team!

This Jobot Job is hosted by Sydney Weaver

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Salary $200,000 - $270,000 per year

A Bit About Us

Backed by Y Combinator and fresh off a $50M Series C funding round, this fast-scaling data infrastructure company is redefining how organizations sync, activate, and intelligently use customer data. Already trusted by major players like Spotify and Ramp, the platform enables high-throughput, low-latency data syncing across SaaS tools. Now, the team is building out a new intelligence layer to transform raw data into actionable insights—unlocking the next generation of personalization, experimentation, and automation.

This is a high-impact, foundational role for a Machine Learning Engineer with strong software engineering chops. You’ll work across the stack, influencing product direction and technical architecture, and be instrumental in building core ML features from 0 to 1.

Culture

• Outcomes based, no micro-management or unnecessary meetings. We trust our team and get out of the way
• Great work life balance. We believe you can't do more than 6-8 hours of great engineering work in a day

Benefits

• Open to onsite or remote candidates with offices in NY and SF
• Competitive Salary + Equity
• Fully covered health, dental, & vision
• 401K + match
• PTO, vacation, sick, and much more!

Job Details

Responsibilities

• Design and implement machine learning models for personalization, predictive audiences, experimentation, and budget optimization
• Build systems that help determine what content to send, to whom, and when—based on terabytes of data
• Collaborate with customers to understand business goals and define ML-based solutions
• Architect scalable ML and backend infrastructure to support low-latency data applications
• Drive innovation in applying LLMs to generate high-performing marketing content (text, images, creatives)
• Analyze and optimize budget allocation by measuring incremental conversions and cost efficiency
• Contribute to product vision, working closely with cross-functional teams including data, product, and design
• Play a key role in shaping the company’s growing intelligence layer as one of the first ML hires

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 4-10+ years of experience in both Software Engineering and Machine Learning
• Experience with LLM / NLP / RAG and proven experience building recommendation, search, personalization, and/or pricing systems
• Experience building and shipping products from scratch in a high-scale SaaS environment
• Hands-on experience with distributed backend infrastructure and production ML pipelines
• Strong backend engineering skills and a deep understanding of ML modeling
• Excellent communication skills—able to clearly articulate complex systems and decisions

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