Senior Staff ML Engineer: Agentic Trade Systems (Remote)

53 Stations; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Health Benefits

401(k) Savings

Commuter Benefits

Wellness Program

Employee Assistance Program

Dependent Care FSA

Job summary

Altana is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You will work on real-time risk, compliance, and enforcement decisions using a stream of trade data and build models that scale globally.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture across teams, and collaborate with customers, product managers, and software engineers to ship impactful capabilities while improving model performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and shipping ML systems in production.
• Deep expertise in PyTorch and modern Python ML stack.
• Hands-on production LLM applications: RAG, tool calling, structured outputs.
• Experience shipping agentic systems and managing failure modes.
• Post-training/adapting LLMs (SFT, DPO, RLHF/RLAIF).
• Strong evaluation practices with eval suites and datasets.
• Judicious choice of frontier API vs fine-tuned models balancing cost/latency/accuracy.
• Senior technical leadership: set direction, mentor engineers, roadmap creation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; strong collaboration with teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction for agentic systems and model roadmaps.
• Design reliable, cost-efficient ingestion, document understanding, and inference pipelines.
• Fine-tune models using feedback and production outcomes.
• Build observability, evals, tracing, and feedback loops for real-time decisions.
• Mentor senior engineers and shape hiring and levels for ML talent.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, PMs, and customers to ship new capabilities.

Skills

ML production experience

PyTorch

Python ML stack

LLM applications

Agentic systems

Architecture leadership

Mentorship

Strong communication

AI tooling

Experimentation

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Git

Kubernetes

Swagger/OpenAPI

AWS

Azure

Databricks

Postgres

OpenSearch

FAISS

MLflow

Job description

Altana is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You will work on real-time risk, compliance, and enforcement decisions using a stream of trade data and build models that scale globally.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture across teams, and collaborate with customers, product managers, and software engineers to ship impactful capabilities while improving model performance and reliability.