Senior ML/AI Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a senior individual contributor role on the core AI team of an early-stage, AI-native consumer intelligence platform serving large enterprise retail clients. You'll own the intelligent systems that power demand forecasting, consumer sentiment analysis, competitive benchmarking, and autonomous decision-making — applied AI with direct, measurable business impact. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and deploy ML models for demand forecasting, time series prediction, consumer sentiment analysis, and anomaly detection at enterprise scale. - Develop and iterate on an agentic AI architecture that reasons across heterogeneous data sources and takes autonomous action. - Build and maintain robust ML pipelines covering data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and production deployment. - Architect RAG systems and LLM integrations powering natural language interfaces and autonomous workflows. - Collaborate with backend engineers to ensure models are production-grade — optimized for latency, reliability, and scale. - Own model performance end-to-end: monitoring, retraining, and continuous improvement in production. - Stay current with AI research and bring relevant innovations into the platform. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. - 3+ years of ML-focused experience building and delivering production ML pipelines and systems architecture — not purely general software engineering. - Deep proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent. - Production experience building agentic systems or LLM harnesses for real-world use cases. - Hands-on experience with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or equivalent). - Strong SQL proficiency for data querying and manipulation. - Background at scale — large tech organizations, established ML teams, or early-stage ML-focused startups. - Experience with the Go programming language is a plus. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Salary: $170,000 – $230,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in New York, NY.