Senior ML Engineer: LLMs & NLP for AI-Powered Markets

Versant; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant, via StockStory, is seeking a Senior ML Engineer in Englewood Cliffs, NJ to build and scale AI-powered equity research products for individual investors. You will contribute to production ML systems, LLM workflows, and data pipelines, collaborating with a small, high‑ownership team.

The role provides access to experienced market professionals, direct impact on product design, and opportunities to work with cutting-edge ML and NLP techniques in a fast-paced media/finance environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience with a focus on machine learning or AI systems.
• Experience building and operating production ML systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Java.
• Proven experience with LLMs, ranking or recommendation systems, search, or applied NLP.
• Solid understanding of modern ML techniques including deep learning and representation learning.
• Experience contributing to system design and technical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core components of our AI platform: production-grade ML systems, LLM workflows, and supporting infrastructure for investor-facing experiences.
• Own end-to-end delivery of AI features from data pipelines and training workflows to inference and monitoring; mentor peers to elevate ML quality.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technical standards, and system reliability; perform code reviews and incident retrospectives.
• Solve complex technical problems with business impact, including performance, bias, and operational issues in AI systems.
• Collaborate with leadership and investors to align ML capabilities with product strategy and market needs.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

LLMs

NLP

Training pipelines

Production ML systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Versant, via StockStory, is seeking a Senior ML Engineer in Englewood Cliffs, NJ to build and scale AI-powered equity research products for individual investors. You will contribute to production ML systems, LLM workflows, and data pipelines, collaborating with a small, high‑ownership team.

The role provides access to experienced market professionals, direct impact on product design, and opportunities to work with cutting-edge ML and NLP techniques in a fast-paced media/finance environment.