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    ML Engineer

    Docker
    Palo Alto, CASeattle, WA
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    1 day ago
    💰$ 138,500 - $ 225,500
    ML EngineerAIMachine LearningBackend EngineeringRemote-firstSenior LevelDocker

    Requirements

    • 5+ years of deep applied ML/AI expertise with a track record of shipping production systems
    • Experience in fraud, abuse, safety, security, or trust domains
    • 4+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
    • Experience building and owning systems around ML models including data pipelines, serving, evaluation, monitoring
    • Fluency with modern AI tools and ability to decide when to use frontier models versus traditional ML
    • Experience with LLM-based systems in production including evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, retrieval, guardrails, agent frameworks
    • Familiarity with the agent / MCP ecosystem
    • Ability to work in an early-stage effort with incomplete information and make crisp decisions
    • Collaborative and low-ego with good communication skills

    What You'll Do

    • Design, train, evaluate, and ship ML systems that power governance and security capabilities, including prompt injection detection, behavioral anomaly detection, trust scoring, and policy recommendations
    • Build supporting infrastructure such as data pipelines, feature stores, model serving, evaluation harnesses, and feedback loops
    • Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions using frontier models, off-the-shelf tooling, and managed services
    • Set technical direction for the team's ML work including architecture, evaluation methodology, model lifecycle, and shipping standards
    • Help recruit, mentor, and shape the team as it grows
    • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for the Agentic Platform and carry pager responsibility for services built and operated

    Benefits

    • Freedom & flexibility to fit work around life
    • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
    • Home office setup
    • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave after 6 months of employment
    • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
    • PTO plan encouraging time off
    • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
    • Equity in the company
    • Docker Swag
    • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
    • Remote-first culture with offices in Seattle and Paris

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