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  • Build the component layer around our layout synthesis engine, including API contracts, services, and evaluation gates.
  • Turn model retraining into a one-command job with built-in benchmarks and readable results for the whole team.
  • Own latency and cost budgets for learned capabilities and partner with infrastructure engineers on MLOps and deployment.

Python PyTorch Machine Learning FastAPI MLOps

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US Unlimited PTO

  • Build the foundations of the EdgeRunner Research organization, including data pipelines, model evaluation, and efficient parallelization.
  • Own codebases in areas like distributed training, quantization, compression, or compute cluster management.
  • Collaborate with a team of self-starters who operate independently and translate business objectives into technical solutions.

EdgeRunner AI builds state-of-the-art AI models for the tactical edge, enabling warfighters to make faster decisions and interact with robotic platforms. As a Series-A startup, we move quickly, fostering a culture of initiative, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity.

Europe 6w PTO 26w maternity 26w paternity

  • Develop deep understanding of customer problems and map them to Cohere solutions as a trusted technical advisor.
  • Lead design and deployment of customer pilots, owning the technical narrative from discovery to business case.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams and partners to scale solutions and gather customer feedback.

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building cutting-edge foundation AI models and products for real-world business problems. It is a global team of researchers, engineers, and designers headquartered in Toronto with offices worldwide, committed to driving AI adoption.

Global 6w PTO 26w maternity 26w paternity

  • Design and write high-performing, scalable software for training models.
  • Develop new tools to support and accelerate research and LLM training.
  • Collaborate with engineering and scientific teams to create a strong post-training ecosystem.

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end products to solve real-world business problems. They are a global team of researchers, engineers, and designers passionate about their craft, with offices in Toronto, London, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul.

$250,000–$300,000/yr
US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Own the build out of new agents, skills, and platform capability for teams across TLDR.
  • Build and deploy agents end to end, from design through implementation, evals, and rollout to internal users.
  • Partner with stakeholders across sales, editorial, and people ops to find where an LLM belongs in their process.

TLDR runs the largest network of tech newsletters in the world, with over 8 million subscribers covering startups, software engineering, AI, and more. Our 31-person full-time team is bootstrapped, profitable, and on track for $35M in revenue this year, with a culture of owning functions rather than slices.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Define the technical roadmap for Growth and Engagement ML systems, ensuring scalability and business impact.
  • Architect and deploy production-grade ML pipelines and real-time decisioning systems for personalization and onboarding.
  • Mentor senior engineers and collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Marketing leadership to drive core metrics.

Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets, providing access to global markets that never close. With around 180 fully remote employees and backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Paradigm, we foster a culture of innovation and inclusivity.

Global

  • Develop and deploy cutting-edge AI/ML solutions to enhance the platform and improve student learning experiences.
  • Design, develop, and optimize LLM-powered agentic systems and APIs for real product use cases.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and contribute to evaluation frameworks and MLOps pipelines.

Interview Kickstart specializes in interview preparation and career transitions into high-demand tech fields like AI, ML, and Data Science. Over 17,000 tech professionals have been guided by current and former hiring managers to land coveted positions at companies like Google and Amazon.

$230,000–$322,000/yr
US

  • Lead the development and optimization of machine learning models to detect and prevent AI security risks like prompt injection and jailbreaks.
  • Build reproducible training and evaluation pipelines on Reddit's ML platform, partnering with platform engineers to improve performance and reliability.
  • Set the technical vision and multi-quarter modeling roadmap, mentoring engineers and establishing best practices for responsible ML development.

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests and authentic conversations, with 100,000+ active communities and 130 million daily active visitors. It is one of the internet's largest sources of information, fostering a culture of openness and trust.

$170,170–$286,000/yr
North America

  • Design and maintain reliable, low-latency ML APIs to integrate Safety AI model outputs into cloud applications.
  • Build scalable data pipelines for continuous model iteration, backtesting, and online evaluation.
  • Optimize model artifacts for production and monitor rollout health, ensuring predictable failure modes.

Samsara builds a Connected Operations Cloud that helps physical operations use IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Samsara is a recently public company with an employee-led remote culture and a long-term focus.

$215,250–$285,982/yr
US

  • Build cutting-edge technology using deep learning and machine learning to personalize Pinterest.
  • Partner with teams to improve ML models for product surfaces like Homefeed and Search.
  • Use data-driven methods to improve content recommendation and ads delivery.

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas and plan for memories. The company is mission-driven, focusing on innovation and inclusion, with a large and diverse user base.

Global

  • Design, build, and deploy production ML and LLM-based systems for enterprise clients.
  • Own technical delivery end-to-end from architecture to deployment and iteration.
  • Mentor and support other ML engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.

TensorOps is a boutique AI consultancy that designs and ships production-grade AI systems for enterprise clients. The company has shipped AI systems impacting 200M+ end users daily, partnered with 11 unicorns, and operates fully remotely with a supportive, fast-growing culture.

$205,000–$265,000/yr
US

  • Drive ML strategy and roadmap for recommendation and matching systems.
  • Architect high-scale ML systems for real-time intent prediction and candidate ranking.
  • Provide org-wide technical leadership and mentor ML engineers across teams.

ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace powered by AI-driven smart matching technology. The company actively connects millions of businesses and job seekers and has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.

$211,000–$249,000/yr
US

  • Build and own training pipelines for ML models, including data prep, fine-tuning, and experiment tracking.
  • Develop inference and serving layer with model gateway, routing, caching, and cost optimization.
  • Own release path for model-layer artifacts with canary deployments and monitoring for regressions.

Horizon3 is a fast-growing cybersecurity company that provides autonomous pentesting through its NodeZero platform. The team is a fusion of former special operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and cybersecurity practitioners, fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, and ownership.

Global

  • Build and improve the inference layer of the Gcore Inference platform, integrating frameworks like vLLM and TensorRT-LLM.
  • Bring new language and multimodal models into production, optimizing latency, throughput, and cost efficiency.
  • Debug performance issues across model code, GPU execution, and Kubernetes, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Gcore is a global provider of AI, cloud, network, and security infrastructure and software. They are a team of 550+ professionals with a collaborative culture and partnerships with Intel, NVIDIA, Dell, and Equinix.

$130,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Develop and improve core AI methods and systems for reliable AI agents across the full lifecycle.
  • Create novel approaches for simulation, evaluation, and optimization of agent behavior in production.
  • Turn research ideas into working prototypes and production-facing capabilities.

This is an early-stage AI infrastructure company focused on making AI agents reliable in production. The company values innovation and practical deployment, with a small team driving frontier AI research and product development.

US

  • Apply deep learning and foundation models to solve fraud detection and financial risk problems using large-scale behavioral and sequential datasets.
  • Take models through the complete ML lifecycle including data preparation, pretraining, deployment, and production optimization.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to translate model capabilities into actionable risk decisions.

The company is a fintech organization focused on fraud detection and financial risk using AI and deep learning. It operates with a remote-first culture and a collaborative, autonomous team.

Europe 5w PTO 16w maternity 8w paternity

  • Shape AI security at the edge by turning new threats into protections customers can use.
  • Think like an attacker to find new ways AI systems can be exploited and stop them.
  • Build for real time, catching threats without slowing down the applications we protect.

bunny.net is a content delivery network and edge computing company that accelerates the internet. Founded in 2015, the company has 95+ employees and fosters a culture of ownership, improvement, and challenging what's possible.

Global 7w PTO

  • Own the ML strategy for dialogue systems, lead a team of 3 ML engineers, and drive LLM post-training and model adaptation.
  • Build evaluation layers, cut dialogue failure modes, and keep inference efficient on latency and cost.
  • Stay hands-on with prototypes, debugging agent traces, and reviewing team work.

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a group of social discovery companies that solve problems of loneliness and isolation through social entertainment platforms. The company has an international team of digital nomads and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work winner and a top company for remote jobs.

Global

  • Design and implement novel training optimization techniques for large-scale neural networks.
  • Investigate approaches to improve training efficiency, stability, and convergence speed.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and inference engineering teams to translate research into production performance.

This partner company focuses on AI research and training optimization for large-scale models. They maintain a small, senior-level team that values deep technical thinking and thoughtful execution.

US

  • Develop advanced ML models and agentic workflows to accelerate model development.
  • Use AI-assisted tools like Claude and Cursor to investigate model behavior and automate analysis.
  • Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for modeling rigor.

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

$177,300–$212,800/yr
US

  • Design, develop, and deploy production ML models for ego-motion estimation and localization using camera, LiDAR, and radar.
  • Develop scalable training and evaluation workflows with PyTorch and large-scale real-world datasets.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide technical leadership in design reviews and mentoring.

Torc develops autonomous vehicle software for automated trucks, aiming to transform freight movement. As part of the Daimler family, they have a collaborative, energetic, and team-focused culture with competitive benefits.