Senior ML Engineer

Saris AI

$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of ML or AI engineering experience with a focus on production systems
  • Strong knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, evals, and model routing
  • Proven ability to build impactful tooling and systems for customers
  • Pragmatic approach to engineering trade-offs, prioritizing timely delivery
  • Ability to work in ambiguous environments with minimal direction
  • User-focused mindset, ensuring ML decisions benefit real customers
  • Strong team player with a focus on collaboration through code review and communication

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain ML infrastructure for reliable and improvable AI systems
  • Deliver customer-facing AI features regularly while managing foundational work
  • Define the team's strategies for evals, routing, prompt engineering, and model selection
  • Establish standards that enhance quality without hindering progress
  • Guide ML technical direction by analyzing trade-offs and architectural choices

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment that supports remote collaboration
  • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning
  • Emphasis on team collaboration and knowledge sharing
  • Impactful work that directly influences customer satisfaction
  • Access to cutting-edge ML and AI technologies
Full Job Description
Your mission is to
  • Build and own the ML infrastructure that makes our AI systems reliable and improvable, including eval frameworks, prompt management, and model observability
  • Ship customer-facing AI features on a consistent cadence, balancing new capability delivery with foundational infrastructure work
  • Define and implement the team's approach to evals, LLM routing, prompt engineering, and model selection
  • Build pragmatic standards that improve quality without slowing the team down
  • Contribute to ML technical direction by proactively surfacing trade-offs and architectural options, helping the team make informed decisions on where ML is headed
Who You Are
  • 4+ years of experience in ML or AI engineering, with a track record of shipping production ML systems
  • Strong hands-on expertise with LLMs, prompt engineering, evals, and model routing
  • Experience building tooling and systems that have real customer impact
  • Pragmatic about tradeoffs: knows when good enough is the right call and avoids over-engineering; would rather ship something useful today than design something perfect next quarter
  • Comfortable working with moderate direction in ambiguous environments, you can take a scoped problem, work through it, and deliver a shipped solution
  • Builds with the end user in mind; understands how ML decisions impact real customers and prioritizes customer value over technical elegance
  • Elevates teammates through code review, pairing, and clear communication about technical decisions
Bonus Points If You
  • Have worked in regulated industries (fintech, banking, healthcare) where compliance and reliability are first-class concerns
  • Have experience with RAG systems, fine-tuning, or open-source LLM deployment alongside closed models
  • Are comfortable across the stack, data pipelines through APIs, and can plug gaps where needed
  • Have used or built prompt management or ML observability tooling

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