Staff Machine Learning Engineer

🕒 August 4

🏄 California, District of Columbia – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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Primer.ai

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51 - 200 employees

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Defense • Consulting • Healthcare

Primer. ai is a company dedicated to enhancing safety through advanced artificial intelligence. They focus on developing trusted, decision-ready AI solutions tailored for critical organizations, empowering leaders and analysts to make informed decisions in a rapidly changing environment.

📋 Description

• Set technical and product direction across LLM, agentic, and NLP systems • Design and build distributed agentic systems at company-wide scale • Develop tool-using conversational agents, multi-turn context, retrieval-grounded reasoning, and orchestration systems • Transform real-world data through entity recognition and linking, relation extraction, summarization, semantic search, and knowledge-graph generation • Package, deploy, and operate low-latency, high-concurrency inference systems using Triton, vLLM, and GPU-backed serving • Build evaluations and labeled-data flywheels to measure and improve quality • Partner with and influence cross-functional teams on the technical roadmap • Drive issues to root cause when quality or operations are at stake • Raise engineering standards through improved patterns and practices

🎯 Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 6+ years building production backend software • Track record of shipping and operating ML-driven functionality • Mastery of data structures and algorithms • Ability to translate user needs into practical solutions • Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic systems, including prompt and context engineering, tool use, retrieval, and RAG • Experience with PyTorch • Experience defining evaluations to measure and improve quality • Fluency authoring production APIs in Python • High agency and bias to action in ambiguous, fast-moving problems • Curiosity, generosity, and love of teaching • Experience with knowledge graphs, information retrieval at scale, or LLM fine-tuning and post-training is a bonus • Ability to meet applicable government contract requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy • Wellness Days • 100% paid leave for parents of growing families • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage • Fertility benefits through Carrot • Mental health coverage on demand with Headspace Care+ • Gympass+ Membership via Wellhub • One Medical Membership • 401(k) • Remote work stipends • Monthly internet allowance • Competitive compensation • Comprehensive benefits