Senior Machine Learning Engineer

evenup; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

401(k) / RRSP plan

In‑person meet‑ups

Hubs in SF and Toronto

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

EvenUp seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale ML systems powering Piai™, our claims‑intelligence platform. You’ll work across data pipelines, model deployment, and production environments with ML engineers, data scientists, and legal experts to improve outcomes for personal‑injury clients.

You will own end-to-end ML lifecycle, guide experimentation, and mentor teammates while operating in a hybrid model across San Francisco or Toronto offices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and deploying ML systems in production.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with Python and distributed systems.
• Experience owning the full ML lifecycle beyond model training.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own production ML systems across full lifecycle.
• Architect scalable data pipelines for varied data.
• Build reusable ML frameworks and evaluation tooling.
• Collaborate with data scientists and PMs to define ML solutions.
• Apply NLP, IR, and generative AI techniques where appropriate.
• Define evaluation strategies and ensure model reliability.
• Drive efficiency across ML workflows and real-time inference.
• Integrate models into production with platform engineers.
• Document architectures and establish best practices.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and calibration.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

API design

ML lifecycle

Mentoring

Education

MS in CS or related field

Tools

Pinecone

Weaviate

FAISS

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

LangChain / LlamaIndex

Job description

EvenUp is on a mission to close the justice gap using technology and AI. We empower personal injury lawyers and victims to get the justice they deserve. Our products enable law firms to secure faster settlements, higher payouts, and better outcomes for victims injured through no fault of their own in vehicle collisions, accidents, natural disasters, and more.

We are one of the fastest-growing vertical SaaS companies in history, and we are just getting started. EvenUp is backed by top VCs, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, SignalFire, and Lightspeed. We are looking to expand our team with talented, driven, and collaborative individuals who seek to have a lasting impact. Learn more at www.evenuplaw.com.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

At EvenUp, we leverage cutting-edge AI to bring fairness and accessibility to the legal system. Tackling the most complex legal document challenges requires expertise in data quality, robust model development, and ongoing innovation.

We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help build the models and systems powering Piai™, our proprietary claims‑intelligence platform. You'll work across the ML stack - from data pipelines to production model deployment - alongside ML engineers, data scientists, and legal subject‑matter experts to turn raw legal and medical data into systems that directly improve outcomes for personal‑injury clients.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and own production ML systems across the full lifecycle - problem framing, data strategy, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Architect scalable data pipelines that handle structured, unstructured, and embeddings‑based data for training and inference.
• Build reusable frameworks and infrastructure for model development, evaluation, and benchmarking.
• Partner with data scientists and product managers to translate ambiguous business problems into concrete ML system designs.
• Apply and productionize state‑of‑the‑art techniques across NLP, information retrieval, and generative AI where the problem calls for it.
• Define and implement evaluation strategies - quality metrics, human‑in‑the‑loop review, automated benchmarks - to ensure model reliability.
• Drive scalability and efficiency across ML workflows, from large‑scale data processing to real‑time inference.
• Work with ML platform engineers to integrate models and frameworks into production environments.
• Document system architectures and establish best practices that other engineers build on.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute technical judgment to hiring and calibration as the team grows.

What You Bring

• 5+ years building and deploying machine learning systems in production.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals - Python, distributed systems, API design.
• Experience owning the full ML lifecycle, not just model training in isolation.
• A track record of turning ambiguous problems into scoped, shippable solutions.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your own code.
• Ability to work hybrid (3 days your choice) in our San Francisco or Toronto Canada office.

Nice to Have

• Experience with NLP, LLMs, or generative AI - embeddings, fine‑tuning (LoRA or other PEFT), or prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) or orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with evaluation methodologies for generative AI - RAG benchmarks, hallucination reduction, factual grounding.
• Experience in a high‑growth startup environment.
• Background in legal tech, healthcare, or other high‑stakes, regulated domains.

Benefits & Perks:

As part of our total rewards package, we offer attractive benefits and perks to our employees, including:

• Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family.
• Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness.
• Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short‑term and long‑term disability.
• 10 US observed holidays, and Canadian statutory holidays by province.
• A home office stipend.
• 401(k) for US‑based employees and RRSP for Canada‑based employees.
• Paid parental leave.
• A local in‑person meet‑up program.
• Hubs in San Francisco and Toronto.

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full‑time employees.

EvenUp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.