Machine Learning Engineer

Poesis

$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or similar role
  • Experience at a frontier AI lab, startup, hedge fund, or big tech company
  • Strong Python and SQL skills with large-scale data handling
  • Experience deploying ML models in a production environment
  • Demonstrated ability to build reproducible research workflows
  • Familiarity with modern AI systems like LLMs
  • Skill in leveraging coding agents like Claude Code or Codex
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Rapidly implement and iterate on machine learning models and research ideas
  • Design and conduct experiments for model performance evaluation
  • Build reproducible workflows for data generation and evaluation
  • Analyze large-scale financial datasets to identify predictive signals

Benefits

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Catered lunches at the Menlo Park office
  • Commuter benefits
  • Relocation allowance available
  • Continuing work visa sponsorship for full-time employees
Full Job Description
About the Role

At Poesis, machine learning and artificial intelligence open the door to improved alpha discovery, higher quality decision-making and intelligent risk management. We're looking for an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer to help build the systems that make this possible. In this role, you'll develop models, signals and evaluation frameworks that power investment decision-making across the platform. You'll work across the full machine learning lifecycle, from experimentation and model and agent development to deployment and iteration, with significant ownership over both research and production outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to help build a new approach to investing powered by AI.

Responsibilities
  • Rapidly implement and iterate on machine learning models, signals and research ideas
  • Design and run experiments to evaluate and improve model and agent performance and investment impact
  • Build reproducible workflows for feature generation, training, validation and evaluation
  • Work with large-scale financial, fundamental and alternative datasets to identify predictive signals and improve model performance


Required Competencies
  • 5+ years experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, or related role
  • Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, agentic startup, leading hedge fund, big tech company, or similar
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience working with large-scale datasets
  • Experience developing, evaluating and deploying machine learning models in production environments
  • Success building reproducible research workflows and experimentation frameworks
  • Familiarity with modern AI systems, including LLMs, evaluation frameworks, and agent workflows
  • Skill leveraging Claude Code, Codex, or other coding agents
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience


Preferred Competencies
  • Experience developing ML and AI systems using financial, fundamental, alternative, or time-series datasets
  • Familiarity with quantitative investing, portfolio construction, or risk management
  • Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, and AI workflows for parsing financial documents (filings, transcripts)


Location

Hybrid: 3 days per week on-site at our office in Menlo Park, CA. Relocation allowance available.

Benefits

We offer excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, alongside a strong benefits package that includes catered lunches in our Menlo Park office, commuter benefits, and more.

Current legal authorization to work in the US required; continuing work visa sponsorship available for full-time employees.

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