Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5)

Uare.ai; San Francisco, Los Altos (CA, CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Uare.ai in San Francisco/Los Altos is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to deploy the HLM on Azure OpenAI inside a DoD IL5 boundary and prove it performs at least as well there as commercially.

You will stand up Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech, port RAG/HLM pipelines to Azure Government services, and build evals, provenance, and access controls. U.S. citizenship is required for government contracts and security clearances benefit the role.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in ML or applied AI, owning models that serve real traffic.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Hands-on experience deploying ML or LLM systems in a DoD IL5 environment (Azure Government preferred).
• Deep experience with Azure OpenAI or similar hosted models, RAG, vector search, and evals.
• Comfortable in disconnected or tightly restricted environments where you cannot pip install your way out of a problem.
• Able to pass a U.S. government background investigation. An active clearance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve the models. Stand up Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech in Azure Government, and tune them for quality, latency, and cost.
• Port the pipelines. Move our RAG and HLM pipelines onto Azure Government services, with nothing leaving the boundary.
• Prove it works. Build evals for accuracy, grounding, and refusals, and report results to the customer.
• Own provenance. Model versions, prompts, approved images, and data lineage, documented for the ATO.
• Secure retrieval. Build access control and audit logging with our full stack engineer.

Skills

DoD IL5 deployment

Azure Government

Azure OpenAI

RAG pipelines

Vector search

Model evals

Security/compliance

Background clearance

Production ML systems

Python/ML engineering

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Speech

Azure Government

RAG tooling

Job description

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5)

San Francisco / Los Altos, in-person 5 days a week, occasional travel to customer sites · Reports to the CTO · $200K to $260K base + equity

About Uare.ai

Uare.ai is the platform for Human-First AI. General models give everyone's answer. An Individual AI is trained on one person, so it gives theirs.

It runs on our Human Life Model (HLM), which captures seven dimensions of who someone is. Each HLM belongs to its person, and their data never trains anyone else's model. Live since July 2026, the HLM is now heading into U.S. defense programs, running on Azure OpenAI inside Azure Government at IL5.

Founded by Rob LoCascio, founder and former CEO of LivePerson. Backed by $10.3M from Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures.

About the role

You will make the HLM run on Azure OpenAI inside a Department of Defense/War Impact Level 5 (IL5) boundary, and prove it performs as well there as it does commercially.

What you'll do

• Serve the models. Stand up Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech in Azure Government, and tune them for quality, latency, and cost.
• Port the pipelines. Move our RAG and HLM pipelines onto Azure Government services, with nothing leaving the boundary.
• Prove it works. Build evals for accuracy, grounding, and refusals, and report results to the customer.
• Own provenance. Model versions, prompts, approved images, and data lineage, documented for the ATO.
• Secure retrieval. Build access control and audit logging with our full stack engineer.

What we're looking for

• U.S. citizenship is required. This role supports U.S. government contracts that require it.
• Hands-on experience deploying ML or LLM systems in a DoD IL5 environment (Azure Government preferred).
• 7+ years in ML or applied AI, owning models that serve real traffic.
• Deep experience with Azure OpenAI or similar hosted models, RAG, vector search (such as Azure AI Search), and evals.
• Comfortable in disconnected or tightly restricted environments where you cannot pip install your way out of a problem.
• Able to pass a U.S. government background investigation. An active clearance is a plus.

Bonus

• Speech and audio ML (ASR, voice synthesis).
• Fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI or Azure Machine Learning.
• Iron Bank / Platform One container pipelines.

How we hire

We hire for a growth mindset: outcomes over output, experiments by default, and moving the metric that matters.

Location: in-person, 5 days a week, across our San Francisco and Los Altos offices.

Uare.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of every background and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. U.S. citizenship is required for this role because it supports U.S. government contracts that require it.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

$200,000 - $260,000 USD

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