About the RoleThis is a senior individual contributor role on the core AI team of an early-stage, AI-native consumer intelligence platform. You'll design and deploy the intelligent systems - from demand forecasting models to agentic reasoning architectures - that deliver real, measurable value for large enterprise retail clients. The work sits squarely at the intersection of applied research and production-grade deployment.
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 end-to-end ML pipelines covering data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Architect RAG systems and LLM integrations that power natural language interfaces and autonomous workflows.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to ensure models meet production standards 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- 3+ years of hands-on ML experience, focused on building and delivering production ML systems (not primarily software engineering with minimal ML exposure).
- Deep proficiency in Python and at least one major ML framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent).
- Production experience building agentic systems and LLM harnesses (e.g. using LangChain or similar).
- Hands-on experience with graph databases.
- Strong SQL skills for data querying and manipulation.
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field.
- Background working at scale - large tech companies or high-growth startups with live, production ML systems.
- Go programming language experience is a plus.
Compensation & BenefitsBase salary range:
$170,000 - $230,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
LocationOn-site in
New York, NY, USA.
