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# Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** LIGHTFIELD, INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Tensorflow, Large Language Models, Deep Learning, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/machine-learning-engineer-staff-lightfield-8146654

## About the Role

* You have a BS or MS degree in CS, AI, or applied math
 * You have 5+ years of experience building AI/ML based products in NLP domains
 * You have a strong understanding of deep learning AI/ML frameworks or cloud services
 * You have hands-on ML Ops experience

Bonus Points

 * Experience leading AI/ML product initiatives
 * Publications in applied AI/ML scientific journals
 * Experience navigating open source/vendor solutions in LLM ops space (LangChain, Llama, Pinecone, etc)

## Description

Lightfield's AI/ML team builds the experiences at the core of our product, developing new applications to wow our customers.

Today, the team is focused on building a powerful, domain-specific AI that outperforms generic LLMs.

We're inspired by the challenge of creating innovative new AI products for people doing serious work, and we're looking to grow our AI/ML team to meet that challenge.

What you'll do

 * Create and ship magical, highly-differentiated AI experiences that sales teams are eager to use
 * Craft Lightfield's AI/ML strategy in tight collaboration with founders and execs
 * Identify user needs that are well suited for AI/ML solutions, frame the problems, and collaborate with product leaders on solutions
 * Prototype innovative, LLM-powered experiences, and drive their development into robust product features
 * Help build a world class AI/ML engineering team by recruiting and mentoring teammates


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