Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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Location: Remote (US) Pay: $230,000–$300,000 + bonus + equity A late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company is hiring a Staff ML Engineer to set the technical direction for its agent systems. This is model and systems work that ships to large enterprise customers, not a thin layer over someone else's API. What you'll do - Design multi-step LLM systems: reasoning, retrieval, planning and tool use - Own evaluation, from offline benchmarks to online experiments and model-graded review - Find and fix failure modes such as hallucination and tool misuse - Set the quality, latency and cost targets the team builds against - Mentor senior engineers and shape how the group works What you bring - 7+ years shipping ML in production, including LLMs at scale - Led the design of complex, multi-step LLM systems - Depth in transformers, embeddings and retrieval - Evaluation experience beyond single prompts - PyTorch or similar, on distributed cloud infrastructure - BS in CS or a related field; MS or PhD a plus Nice to have: ML shipped before LLMs, then moved into generative AI; detailed retrieval work (chunking, reranking, evals) Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.