Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Antimetal • New York, NY

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About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer to design and deploy intelligent systems to automate infrastructure workflows. You’ll work hands-on with cutting-edge technologies—LLMs, knowledge graphs, and advanced retrieval systems—to build scalable, agentic systems. You’ll rapidly prototype, experiment, and take projects from concept to production. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about applied AI, this is the role for you.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in applied machine learning or a related role, preferably at a high-growth company.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deploy large-scale machine learning systems that add new value to the product.
• Strong on ML fundamentals: classification/regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, evaluation & error analysis, probabilistic ML.
• Real world expertise in one area of applied ML: search, statistical modeling, NLP, etc.
• Experience constructing and running end-to-end evaluation pipelines with real world data.
• Proficient in Python and Typescript, with experience using common ML libraries and data engineering tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on creating highly maintainable, scalable code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable with iterative development, prototyping, and adapting quickly to feedback.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with vector/hybrid search.
• Experience with dataset curation or synthetic dataset generation for novel problem domains.
• A passion for staying ahead of applied AI trends and prototyping emerging technologies.
• Contributions to open-source ML tools or libraries.
• Experience with Go or another systems language.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy intelligent systems to automate infrastructure workflows.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies such as LLMs, knowledge graphs, and advanced retrieval systems.
• Rapidly prototype and experiment with new ideas.
• Take projects from concept to production.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with generous equity grants.
• Fully covered health, dental, and vision, plus retirement benefits.
• Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need to recharge.
• Dinner on late nights — Working late? Dinner is on us.
• Monthly support for your health and wellness.
• Any equipment you need to do your best work.
• Citi Bike + train benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees