Staff Engineer, Applied ML — Remote (Japan)

Liquid AI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Mentorship

Unlimited PTO

Salary & equity

Job summary

Liquid AI seeks a leader to own applied machine learning projects for customers in Japan, guiding work from discovery through production deployment. You will ensure models are reliable in real environments, optimize inference, and support model integration across products and engineering teams.

You will collaborate with customer engineering teams, cross-functional research, product, and engineering groups, travel occasionally to Japan and the US for conferences and on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Translate ambiguous customer problems into practical engineering plans.
• Ability to lead technical work from discovery to deployment.
• Strong applied ML judgment considering privacy, compute, latency, and memory.
• Clear communication across globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Clarify customer needs and convert into technical plans.
• Integrate and optimize inference to meet latency and memory targets.
• Build data pipelines, evaluation workflows, and serving components.
• Adapt or post-train models and validate results with error analysis.
• Share findings with product and engineering teams and develop deployment approaches.
• Travel occasionally within Japan and to the United States or conferences.

Job description

Liquid AI seeks a leader to own applied machine learning projects for customers in Japan, guiding work from discovery through production deployment. You will ensure models are reliable in real environments, optimize inference, and support model integration across products and engineering teams.

You will collaborate with customer engineering teams, cross-functional research, product, and engineering groups, travel occasionally to Japan and the US for conferences and on-site collaboration.