Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Confidential • sonoma, ca • Posted June 30, 2026
Position Overview
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (San Francisco - Hybrid)
A well-funded AI startup is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help build the next generation of interactive AI experiences. You'll develop cutting-edge AI systems that power intelligent, real-time 3D characters, shaping how people interact with AI across gaming, entertainment and consumer applications.
What Will I Be Doing?
- Design and build production-ready AI systems powered by LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering and multi-agent architectures.
- Develop scalable backend services that power intelligent, real-time AI experiences.
- Collaborate with product and research teams to take cutting-edge AI concepts from research into production.
- Evaluate, optimise and improve AI performance through experimentation, benchmarking and model fine-tuning.
- Drive best practices across AI quality, safety, s...