Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Lightfield; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 220.000 - 300.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Meaningful early equity

Health insurance

3 weeks PTO

11 paid holidays + winter break

3 months family leave

Wednesdays work from home

Team dinners/events/offsites

401k plan

Commuter and lunch stipend

Descripción de la vacante

Lightfield’s AI/ML team builds core product experiences, delivering domain‑specific AI that outperforms generic LLMs. You will shape the AI/ML strategy in close collaboration with founders and executives and translate user needs into shippable features.

We seek a senior AI/ML leader with 7+ years building NLP‑focused AI products, strong DL/frameworks, and hands‑on ML Ops. You’ll mentor engineers, recruit talent, and help Lightfield scale a world‑class AI/ML organization.

Formación

• 7+ years building AI/ML based products in NLP domains.
• Strong understanding of deep learning frameworks or cloud services.
• Hands-on ML Ops experience.

Responsabilidades

• Create and ship magical, highly-differentiated AI experiences for sales teams.
• Craft Lightfield's AI/ML strategy in collaboration with founders and execs.
• Identify user needs for AI/ML solutions and frame problems for product teams.
• Prototype LLM-powered experiences and turn them into robust features.
• Help build and mentor a world-class AI/ML engineering team.

Conocimientos

AI/ML development

NLP

Deep learning

ML Ops

Cloud services

Educación

BS/MS in CS, AI, or applied math

Herramientas

LangChain

Llama

Pinecone

Descripción del empleo

About Lightfield

Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.

About Lightfield

Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.

About The Role

Lightfield's AI/ML team builds the experiences at the core of our product, developing new applications to wow our customers.

Today, the team is focused on building a powerful, domain-specific AI that outperforms generic LLMs.

We’re inspired by the challenge of creating innovative new AI products for people doing serious work, and we’re looking to grow our AI/ML team to meet that challenge.

What you\'ll do

• Create and ship magical, highly-differentiated AI experiences that sales teams are eager to use


• Craft Lightfield's AI/ML strategy in tight collaboration with founders and execs


• Identify user needs that are well suited for AI/ML solutions, frame the problems, and collaborate with product leaders on solutions


• Prototype innovative, LLM-powered experiences, and drive their development into robust product features


• Help build a world class AI/ML engineering team by recruiting and mentoring teammates

Who you are

• You have a BS or MS degree in CS, AI, or applied math


• You have 7+ years of experience building AI/ML based products in NLP domains


• You have a strong understanding of deep learning AI/ML frameworks or cloud services


• You have hands-on ML Ops experience

Bonus Points

• Experience leading AI/ML product initiatives


• Publications in applied AI/ML scientific journals
  
• Experience navigating open source/vendor solutions in LLM ops space (LangChain, Llama, Pinecone, etc)

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary


• Meaningful early equity


• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)


• 3 weeks of PTO


• 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break


• 3 months of paid family leave


• Wednesdays work from home


• Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats


• 401k plan


• Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

Compensation Range: $220K - $300K