Founding Production ML Engineer – Robotics & LLMs

Open Talent; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding Member Equity

Job summary

Open Talent in NYC is seeking a founding AI/ML engineer to build the production intelligence layer for autonomous heavy machinery. This is a 100% production role focused on deploying multi-ton systems with real customers and field performance. Role requires base salary and equity for founding team members.

You will own the pipeline, tuning, and performance in the field, shipping production-grade ML systems, and ensuring low latency and high reliability in mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• Production ML systems shipped at scale.
• Deep experience with fine-tuning LLMs and RAG.
• Strong systems thinking across full stack.
• Experience in environments with high production standards.

Responsibilities

• Build the production intelligence layer for autonomous heavy machinery.
• Develop and deploy LLMs for real-time control and decision making.
• Design evaluation frameworks to ensure safety and reliability in production.
• Own the data pipelines, model tuning, and field performance.

Skills

Production ML systems

LLM fine-tuning

Systems thinking

High-bar pedigree

Tools

RAG pipelines

Data infra

Job description

Open Talent in NYC is seeking a founding AI/ML engineer to build the production intelligence layer for autonomous heavy machinery. This is a 100% production role focused on deploying multi-ton systems with real customers and field performance. Role requires base salary and equity for founding team members.

You will own the pipeline, tuning, and performance in the field, shipping production-grade ML systems, and ensuring low latency and high reliability in mission-critical environments.