Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Composite Sciences, Inc

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in machine learning with a focus on production deployment
  • Expertise in optimizing inference pipelines for minimal latency
  • Strong understanding of data quality and experience in building validation tools
  • Familiarity with large language models, transformer architectures, or sequence prediction
  • Proficiency in working across various tech stacks, including Chrome extensions and cloud services

Responsibilities

  • Enhance the accuracy and speed of core ML models for predicting user actions
  • Design and refine LLM inference pipelines with caching and streaming optimizations
  • Create evaluation frameworks for model quality assessment at scale
  • Explore retrieval-augmented methods using vector databases
  • Develop synthetic data generation systems for user interaction training
  • Analyze DOM states and user data to improve browser understanding
  • Deliver features end-to-end, directly impacting users

Benefits

  • Unique opportunity to lead and influence in a founding role
  • Directly ship impactful changes that enhance user experience
  • Work in a dynamic, high-ownership environment with a small, skilled team
  • Solutions developed are aimed at improving the work lives of millions
  • Cutting-edge technology stack involving browser automation and ML challenges
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for founding Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) to own and improve our core action models end-to-end - the intelligence that powers Composite's proactive automation platform.

You'll work at the intersection of LLM inference, browser understanding, and low-latency systems, shipping models that need to feel instant while reasoning over complex page state and user context.

Unlike hosted browser solutions that introduce latency and auth barriers, or consumer-focused "AI browsers," we run AI directly through professionals' existing browsers via a Chrome extension, creating instant response times with zero migration or IT friction. This architecture creates unique ML challenges.

This is a high-ownership role on our small, exceptional team where your work ships directly to users and has the potential to tangibly improve the work lives of hundreds of millions of people.

What You'll Work On
  • Improve the accuracy and latency of our core models across diverse web applications to predict users' intended next actions and execute them faster than manual input
  • Design and optimize LLM inference pipelines, including token caching strategies, streaming architectures, and network-level optimizations between client and server
  • Build evaluation frameworks and data pipelines to measure and improve model quality at scale
  • Experiment with retrieval-augmented approaches using vector databases for contextual memory
  • Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for browser interaction training data
  • Work with DOM states, accessibility trees, and user interaction data to improve browser understanding
  • Ship features end-to-end that go directly to users - this is not a research-only role


What We're Looking For
ML & Systems
  • Strong ML fundamentals with hands-on experience training and deploying models in production
  • Obsessive about latency - experience optimizing inference pipelines to feel instant to end users
  • Deep care about data quality, with the instinct to build tooling that ensures it
  • Experience with LLMs, transformer architectures, or sequence prediction problems
  • Comfortable working across the stack - our system spans a Chrome extension, Electron app, Cloudflare Workers edge proxy, and inference providers
Core Qualities
  • Character: You're someone we'd want to work closely with for the next ten years. You approach challenges with curiosity rather than ego. You're a team player, a great communicator, and aren't afraid to be wrong.
  • Work Ethic: You're energized by hard problems and comfortable working intensely toward ambitious goals.
  • Raw Intelligence: You can quickly understand complex systems and solve novel, ambiguous problems with self-guidance.
Bonus
  • Experience with browser automation, Chrome extensions, or web scraping at scale
  • Familiarity with accessibility tree / DOM parsing for page understanding
  • Background in RL or online learning from user interaction data
  • Experience with vector databases (e.g., Turbopuffer, Pinecone) and hybrid search
  • Full-stack development experience (TypeScript, Node.js, React)


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