Platform that vets hardtech talent through immersive real-world simulations

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

San FranciscoHybrid$150K - $250K3+ yearsReferral bonus eligible
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You'll spend mornings sketching out new model architectures for evaluating robotics and hardware candidates, and afternoons shipping PyTorch pipelines that power full-day simulation assessments. This means building retrieval systems on vector databases, refining how multimodal inputs translate to hiring signals, and occasionally walking factory floors to understand what separates a promising engineer from a proven one. As the first ML hire, you will define the research culture—deciding which experiments deserve compute, which metrics actually predict on-the-job performance, and when to trade theoretical elegance for production robustness.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years shipping production ML systems, preferably with computer vision or multimodal applications
  • Deep fluency in PyTorch and Python; you've debugged distributed training runs at 3 AM
  • Hands-on experience with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval architectures
  • Comfort translating between messy physical-world data and clean model inputs—hardware, robotics, or defense exposure helps
  • Willingness to work hybrid in San Francisco and occasionally visit manufacturing or testing sites

Tech stack

PythonPyTorchVector Database

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