Founding ML Engineer — Build Scalable NLP & Equity

Open Select

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Salary range $150K to $300K
Equity at an early stage
Direct path toward founding opportunities

Job summary

Open Select, an early-stage AI data company in San Francisco, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer. You will be responsible for owning ML systems that convert raw data into structured intelligence.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in shipping ML models, particularly focusing on NLP. You will work on innovative retrieval systems and contribute to a team that has already achieved $7M ARR.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years shipping ML models in production involving NLP or information retrieval.
  • Experience in training and fine-tuning transformer encoder models.
  • Ability to write strong Python and PyTorch code.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship retrieval systems to match job titles across languages.
  • Resolve duplicate company records across multiple sources.
  • Map raw job titles to canonical titles and functions.

Skills

Machine Learning (ML)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Python
PyTorch
Information Retrieval

Job description

Open Select, an early-stage AI data company in San Francisco, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer. You will be responsible for owning ML systems that convert raw data into structured intelligence.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in shipping ML models, particularly focusing on NLP. You will work on innovative retrieval systems and contribute to a team that has already achieved $7M ARR.

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