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Principal Machine Learning Engineer
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About The Role
A1 is building a proactive AI system that understands context across conversations, plans actions, and carries work forward over time.
You will be responsible for turning research direction into working, production-grade ML systems. This role owns the execution layer of A1’s intelligence – training pipelines, inference systems, evaluation tooling, and deployment.
Focus
- Build and own end-to-end ML pipelines spanning data, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment.
- Fine-tune and adapt models using state-of-the-art methods such as LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation.
- Architect and operate scalable inference systems, balancing latency, cost, and reliability.
- Design and maintain data systems for high-quality synthetic and real-world training data.
- Implement evaluation pipelines covering performance, robustness, safety, and bias, in partnership with research leadership.
- Own production deployment, including GPU optimization, memory efficiency, latency reduction, and scaling policies.
- Collaborate closely with application engineering to integrate ML systems cleanly into backend, mobile, and desktop products.
- Make pragmatic trade-offs and ship improvements quickly, learning from real usage.
- Work under real production constraints: latency, cost, reliability, and safety
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Requirements
- Strong background in deep learning and transformer-based architectures.
- Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying large-scale ML models in production.
- Proficiency with at least one modern ML framework (e.g. PyTorch, JAX), and ability to learn others quickly.
- Experience with distributed training and inference frameworks (e.g. DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, ZeRO, Ray).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals – you write robust, maintainable, production-grade systems.
- Experience with GPU optimization, including memory efficiency, quantization, and mixed precision.
- Comfort owning ambiguous, zero-to-one ML systems end-to-end.
- A bias toward shipping, learning fast, and improving systems through iteration.
Ideal Experience
- Experience with LLM inference frameworks such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or FasterTransformer.
- Contributions to open-source ML or systems libraries.
- Background in scientific computing, compilers, or GPU kernels.
- Experience with RLHF pipelines (PPO, DPO, ORPO).
- Experience training or deploying multimodal or diffusion models.
- Experience with large-scale data processing (Apache Arrow, Spark, Ray).
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How We Work
The best products today in the world were built by small, world class teams. We are a high talent density and hands-on team. We make decisions collectively, move at rapid speed, striking a balance between shipping high quality work and learning. Joining our team requires the ability to bring structure, exercise judgment, and execute independently. Our goal is to put in hands of our users a truly magical product
Interview Process
If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 3, but no more than 4 interviews.
Applications are evaluated by our technical team members. Interviews will be conducted via virtual meetings and/or onsite.
We value transparency and efficiency, so expect a prompt decision. If you've demonstrated the exceptional skills and mindset we're looking for, we'll extend an offer to join us. This isn't just a job offer; it's an invitation to be part of a team that's bringing AI to have practical benefits to billions globally.
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