Senior ML Engineer — Production ML, Equity & Relocation

Highlight

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and generous equity package
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO and parental leave
Paid team lunches during the week
Relocation package

Job summary

Highlight in San Francisco is hiring a Senior ML Engineer to enhance AI capabilities and build critical systems for the company. This role requires expertise in ML pipelines, model training, and deployment, and demands thorough collaboration with the Head of AI Engineering.

The ideal candidate should have experience in shipping production ML systems and enjoy working on impactful challenges. Highlight offers a competitive salary, generous equity, and a collaborative work culture.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in ML/AI engineering with production systems experience.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • Hands-on proficiency with modern ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize ML pipelines for context retrieval.
  • Implement RAG systems and ranking models.
  • Build comprehensive evals for ML system performance.

Skills

ML/AI engineering experience
Clean code writing
Experience with retrieval systems
Proficiency with PyTorch
Understanding of ML product constraints
Strong communication skills

Tools

Vector databases
LLM applications

Job description

Highlight in San Francisco is hiring a Senior ML Engineer to enhance AI capabilities and build critical systems for the company. This role requires expertise in ML pipelines, model training, and deployment, and demands thorough collaboration with the Head of AI Engineering.

The ideal candidate should have experience in shipping production ML systems and enjoy working on impactful challenges. Highlight offers a competitive salary, generous equity, and a collaborative work culture.

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