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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Uber AI Solutions - **Company:** Uber - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $232,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Apache POI, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Backend, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations, Lidar - **Published:** August 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/EABF2255598C4D7ABE7CEFCDE852646F/job/ ## About the Role * Bachelor's or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline. * 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production ML systems, including strong backend engineering across the full path from data to serving. * Track record of driving business impact, not just shipping features: you have owned a product or product line and helped move metrics such as revenue, adoption, or customer value. * Fluency in Python for machine learning and a production systems language such as Go, Java, or C++, and the ability to build reliable services and run them in production. * Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving fast: you find the highest value problems yourself, make the call, and drive them without waiting to be told. * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to align customers, product, and engineering around what will grow the business., * Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline. * You have grown a product or business line in a startup or startup like environment, owning outcomes end to end and treating revenue and customer growth as your job. * Experience applying machine learning to a real world data or evaluation domain, such as physical world data collection, RL environments and agentic evaluation, multilingual or audio data, or data quality and verification, where success was measured by business impact rather than model metrics alone. * Direct experience with GenAI and LLM systems in production, including evaluation harnesses, model tuning, forced alignment or ASR, or pipelines that keep a model in the loop. * Depth in one or more UAIS domains: real world and physical world data such as POI and embodied capture, agentic RL environments, multilingual and multimodal ML, video and LiDAR annotation, or physical AI and robotics data. ## Description * Build the ML and backend systems that turn your vision into a product customers pay for and rely on, going as deep as the problem requires. * Own your vertical end to end: find the opportunities, set the direction, and drive the business metrics that matter, such as revenue, adoption, and customer value. * Move fast in ambiguity: prioritize ruthlessly, make the calls, and turn ideas into shipped, revenue generating products with a product manager and a small senior team. * Be a trusted technical partner in the customer relationship where relevant, using what you learn to grow the account. * Raise the bar on execution and quality so your business can scale. ## Related Videos - [How Machine Learning is turning the Automotive Industry upside down](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/61-how-machine-learning-is-turning-the-automotive-industry-upside-down) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [How to develop an autonomous car end-to-end: Robotic Drive and the mobility revolution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/22-how-to-develop-an-autonomous-car-end-to-end-robotic-drive-and-the-mobility-revolution) - [AI for decision-making in Tech Recruiting](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1074-ai-for-decision-making-in-tech-recruiting) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [What Are Large Language Models?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/304-what-are-large-language-models) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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