9h ago
Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA
$253.1k-$332.2k / year
full-timeleadEdTech
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll lead the technical roadmap for personalization, ranking, and GenAI/LLM systems at a leading edtech platform serving tens of millions of learners. You'll architect end-to-end ML systems and mentor senior engineers to multiply impact across the org.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Own technical roadmap for applied AI across personalization, ranking, search, and GenAI/LLM systems
- Design end-to-end ML systems including candidate sourcing, embedding platforms, and multi-stage ranking
- Lead LLM-based features: RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and inference strategies
- Institutionalize evaluation with offline and online metrics for ranking and generative systems
📋 Requirements
- 10+ years in applied ML/AI with staff-level impact leading cross-functional efforts end-to-end
- Proven record shipping large-scale ranking/personalization or search systems improving online metrics
- Hands-on with LLM/GenAI systems including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, evaluation, and productionization
- Deep fluency in Python/PyTorch, distributed training/inference, and modern MLOps
✨ Nice to Have
- EdTech or consumer mobile experience; conversational tutoring or learning science-informed modeling
- Publications or open-source contributions in RecSys/LLMs (e.g., RecSys, KDD, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL)
- Experience building on a modern MLOps stack including feature management, orchestration, streaming
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 🏖️ 20 vacation days
- 🏥 Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee, 75% dependent)
- 🏦 Employer-sponsored 401k with company match
- 📚 Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional growth
- 👶 Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits
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