Staff ML Engineer, Applied AI for Production Systems

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Holiday calendar

Job summary

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and productionize AI capabilities within Crucible, our manufacturing network. You will partner with data science and software teams to deploy optimization and ML models that are reliable and scalable in constrained environments.

This hands-on role requires shipping ML capabilities into real products, owning end-to-end model workflows, and setting engineering standards for applied AI across Crucible.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping production software or ML systems.
• U.S. person due to ITAR regulations.

Responsibilities

• Build AI capabilities in Crucible — Develop AI-assisted workflows that use Crucible's data, APIs, and domain model to surface insights, answer questions, and help users make decisions.
• Productionize decision models — Work with data science to integrate optimization, forecasting, and other models into reliable product capabilities.
• Build AI systems end-to-end — Design model interfaces, retrieval, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and the services required to run them in production.
• Select and evaluate models — Choose models and approaches based on capability, reliability, latency, security, and deployment constraints.
• Build for constrained environments — Support AI capabilities in cloud, air-gapped, and edge deployments where external model APIs may not be available.
• Ground AI in real operations — Work with manufacturing, supply chain, and product teams to turn operational problems into useful AI features.
• Set the technical direction for applied AI — Establish patterns, evaluation methods, and engineering standards for how AI is used across Crucible.

Skills

Python

LLMs

ML systems

Production software

System design

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and productionize AI capabilities within Crucible, our manufacturing network. You will partner with data science and software teams to deploy optimization and ML models that are reliable and scalable in constrained environments.

This hands-on role requires shipping ML capabilities into real products, owning end-to-end model workflows, and setting engineering standards for applied AI across Crucible.