Remote Staff ML Engineer — Lead Production-Grade AI Platform

Energy Jobline CVL; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 135,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexwired Recruitment has partnered with an exciting AI software company developing advanced machine learning products. They're seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to bridge research and engineering, taking cutting-edge models from experimentation into robust production systems.

This senior hands-on leadership role will own the end-to-end ML platform, collaborating with research, software engineering and product teams to build scalable, production‑grade AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering ML systems into production.
• Strong understanding of foundation models and large models.
• Excellent software engineering skills for production-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including data pipelines, model training, evaluation, inference and deployment.
• Fine-tune and optimise large models using LoRA, QLoRA, supervised fine-tuning, preference optimisation and model distillation.
• Design scalable inference infrastructure with a focus on latency, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Build and maintain high-quality data pipelines for both synthetic and real-world datasets.
• Develop robust evaluation frameworks covering model quality, robustness, safety and performance.
• Optimise GPU utilisation, memory usage and inference performance for production deployments.
• Work closely with software engineers to integrate ML capabilities into backend services and customer-facing products.
• Lead technical delivery, mentor engineers and help shape engineering best practices.
• Balance research ambitions with practical engineering trade-offs to deliver value quickly.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Production ML

Software engineering

Tools

Python

PyTorch

JAX

GPU infrastructure

Job description

Hexwired Recruitment has partnered with an exciting AI software company developing advanced machine learning products. They're seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to bridge research and engineering, taking cutting-edge models from experimentation into robust production systems.

This senior hands-on leadership role will own the end-to-end ML platform, collaborating with research, software engineering and product teams to build scalable, production‑grade AI solutions.