Staff Machine Learning Engineer
$300k/y-$400k/y
Pragmatikea day ago
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OnsiteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Pragmatike is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. The role involves defining and building the company's machine learning capabilities from the ground up in a high-growth AI cybersecurity environment.
About the Role
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the strategy, infrastructure, and execution of machine learning across the organization. Your responsibilities include defining the ML strategy, designing and building production ML systems, establishing evaluation methodologies, owning the data strategy, and partnering with product and backend engineers. You will also write production-quality code and help recruit and mentor the ML team as it expands.
About You
Required:
- 8+ years of experience building ML systems in production environments.
- Experience standing up ML infrastructure at an early-stage startup or serving as the senior/lead ML engineer at a company.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience in languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience with cloud-based ML infrastructure (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, Baseten, or similar platforms).
- Hands-on experience with ML and data frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, or equivalent tools.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate technical standards within a team.
- High autonomy and ownership mindset, with the ability to define direction and execute without predefined playbooks.
Preferred:
- Experience building ML systems for security, fraud detection, or adversarial environments.
- Experience working with LLMs in production (evaluation, fine-tuning, retrieval systems, guardrails).
- Background in real-time inference systems or high-throughput distributed systems.
- Experience making strategic build vs. buy infrastructure decisions.
- Previous startup experience in high-growth environments.
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity options
- Health, Dental, and Vision
- 401k
- Hybrid flexibility
Pragmatike
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