Principal ML Engineer

Sanas

$250K — $350K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning Systems and workflows, with 3+ years in a leadership role
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
  • Strong understanding of deep learning architectures including RNNs, LSTMs, CNNs, and Transformers
  • Experience in deploying ML models to production using tools like ONNX or TensorRT

Responsibilities

  • Architect robust and modular ML pipelines for experimentation and inference
  • Collaborate with data engineering to enhance audio dataset quality and labeling processes
  • Mentor and guide ML engineers and research scientists in model development best practices
  • Optimize models for performance across CPU, GPU, and edge devices
  • Implement frameworks for continual learning and A/B testing in production
  • Stay updated on advancements in Voice AI and multimodal model architectures

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape technical vision in a high-impact role
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to foster innovation
  • Mentorship of a growing team of Machine Learning engineers
Full Job Description
About the role

Weʼre looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our end-to-end Machine Learning infrastructure for industry leading Voice AI products. This is a high impact role where you will shape the technical vision, own strategic architecture decisions, and mentor a growing team of Machine Learning engineers focused on delivering reliable and scalable Machine Learning training and inference systems.

Youʼll work cross-functionally with AI research scientists, Infrastructure and product teams to ensure that Machine Learning infrastructure is designed and built for accelerating innovation through increased experimentation and deployment velocity. Youʼll help push the boundaries of real-time Voice AI

What you'll do

  • Architect robust, modular ML pipelines for model experimentation, feature extraction, and production inference
  • Collaborate with data engineering to improve audio dataset quality, labeling pipelines, and feature engineering
  • Mentor and collaborate with other ML engineers and research scientists to ensure best practices in model development, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Optimize models for latency, memory, and real-time performance on CPU/GPU/edge hardware.
  • Introduce frameworks for continual learning, model versioning, and A/B testing in production.
  • Stay current with advancements in Voice AI, Deep learning and multimodal model architectures

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning Systems, ML workflows with atleast 3+ years in a technical leadership capacity
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
  • Strong understanding of Deep learning architectures like RNNs, LSTMs, CNNs,Transformers, CTC and their application in Accent translation, Noise cancellation, Acoustic Modeling, Language Modeling and Language Translation
  • Experience deploying ML models to production (e.g., via ONNX, TensorRT, TorchScript, or custom inference stacks)

Nice to Have:

  • Familiarity with audio data and its unique challenges, like large file sizes, time- series features, metadata handling, is a strong plus.
  • Experience with Voice AI models like ASR, TTS and speaker verification.
  • Familiarity with real-time data processing frameworks like Kafka, Flink, Druid and Pinot
  • Familiarity with ML workflows including: MLOps, feature engineering, model training and inference.
  • Experience with labeling tools, audio annotation platforms, or human-in-the- loop annotation pipelines.
  • Experience at a high-growth startup or tech company operating at scale.
  • Deep experience with ML tooling for training and serving models, ideally in audio or speech domains (e.g., PyTorch, ONNX, Hugging Face Transformers, torchaudio).
  • Experience deploying real-time ASR, TTS, or voice synthesis models in production.
  • Background in DSP, audio augmentation, or working with noisy or multilingual datasets.


The pay range for this role is:

250,000 - 350,000 USD per year (United States)

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