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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Retell AI, Inc
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Delivery, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-3C28BC2CD8C4F8A44C/

## About the Role

* ML Engineer with Real-World Experience - You've trained and shipped models in production. Bonus if you've worked with LLMs or audio models.
 * Fluent in Modern ML Stack - You know your way around Python, PyTorch, and today's ML tools-from training pipelines to evaluation benchmarks.
 * Execution-Oriented - You move fast, take ownership, and focus on solving real problems over perfect ones.
 * Startup-Ready - You're adaptable, resilient, and energized by ambiguity and fast-changing priorities.
 * Clear Communicator & Team Player - You collaborate well across functions and push decisions forward.

## Description

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for ML engineers who want to build production models that actually ship and perform under real-world constraints. As a Founding Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Retell, you'll work across the ML stack to power human-like voice agents that handle millions of Real Time phone conversations. You'll fine-tune large language models and audio models, evaluate them with rigorous benchmarks (and human feedback), and deploy them into latency-sensitive, high-traffic systems. You'll own model performance end-to-end-from training pipelines to post-deployment monitoring-and shape our ML strategy alongside the founding team. If you're excited by hard technical challenges, fast iteration, and the opportunity to define how voice AI works at scale, this role is a rare chance to do it from the ground up., * Train & Tune Models - Fine-tune LLMs and audio models to maximize speed, accuracy, and production-readiness-pushing the frontier of Real Time AI voice experiences.

 * Benchmark & Evaluate - Build datasets, define rigorous metrics, and measure model performance across high-impact voice AI tasks to guide development.
 * Deploy to Production - Work closely with engineering to ship models, monitor them in the wild, and ensure they stay fast, reliable, and accurate at scale.
 * Run Human Evaluations - Build scalable pipelines to collect structured human feedback, benchmark subjective quality, and inform model iterations.
 * Level Up Infrastructure - Design and maintain the ML infrastructure needed for fast experimentation, robust training, and continuous deployment.


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