Staff Machine Learning/AI Engineer

Position Title: Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity located in San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Prototype, develop and iterate on new product areas for our client giving our customers powerful AI tools for transforming data and identifying ways to reduce their emissions
• Productionize and launch core technologies to power AI features on top of a wealth of operational sustainability data
• Collaborate with product and other AI engineering teams to set product and technical strategy
• Build evals, fine tune, create agent harnesses to build reliable AI powered systems
• Keep up with developments and state-of-the-art in AI to determine what is relevant
• Write performant, well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack

Job Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Machine Learning / AI engineering
• Experience building products using LLMs, embeddings and other ML technologies
• Full lifecycle experience of building, deploying and monitoring products that leverage LLMs, embeddings or other ML technologies
• Experience leading cross functional teams in an innovative fast moving environment
• A strong foundational understanding of machine learning models and practice, including model evaluation and performance
• Strong full-stack development skills

Job Details:

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Location: San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY.
• Salary Range: $247-297K

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.