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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

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Own the machine learning function at an early-stage AI company, shaping post-training and agent systems from research through production.

  • Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress.

  • Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure.

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Own the machine learning function at an early-stage AI company, shaping post-training and agent systems from research through production. You will help set technical priorities and build the foundations for the ML team as it grows.
Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training data pipelines. Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress. Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure.
Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress. Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure. Establish validation and provenance tracking for trajectory and data quality.
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- Hands-on experience with post-training ML, evaluation frameworks, and post-training data pipelines, including structuring, filtering, and scoring training data. - Strong Python and systems-level software engineering skills for ML infrastructure. - Experience with agents, reinforcement learning, trajectory data, reward structures, and agent environment design.

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Demand for ML Engineer roles

New ML Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 13% over the last 6 weeks compared with the 6 before.

Weekly new ML Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of November 2. The fewest in a week was 617, the most 1,122, and the latest week had 1,122.
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About the role

We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.

Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.

A data scientist often works out which model to build; an ML engineer makes it run reliably in production.

US government figures for computer and information research scientists

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$140,300
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for ML engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information research scientists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1221.

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About the Role

Own the machine learning function at an early-stage AI company, shaping post-training and agent systems from research through production. You will help set technical priorities and build the foundations for the ML team as it grows.

What You'll Do

  • Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training data pipelines.

  • Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress.

  • Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure.

  • Establish validation and provenance tracking for trajectory and data quality.

  • Set priorities for ML systems, experiments, and hiring, and lead technical direction as the team scales.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of professional experience building or delivering production machine learning systems.

  • Hands-on experience with post-training ML, evaluation frameworks, and post-training data pipelines, including structuring, filtering, and scoring training data.

  • Strong Python and systems-level software engineering skills for ML infrastructure.

  • Experience with agents, reinforcement learning, trajectory data, reward structures, and agent environment design.

  • Experience building evaluation benchmarks, replay and debugging tools, data validation, provenance tracking, or observability systems.

  • Ability to bridge research and production, take ownership, and work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Germany.

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Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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