Senior Machine Learning / AI Engineer (with commercial experience)

Posted 6 days ago

Worldwide

Summary

Must have AI Engineering background (master or phd in machine learning/artificial intelligence) Senior AI/LLM engineer — RAG, agents, and eval. Owns the entire AI lane. Open source and frontier models. This is the hard-dependency lane — if it slips, the product's core promise (cited, accurate-by-construction memos) doesn't ship. Must have: production RAG with reranking, agent orchestration (hand-rolled supervisor patterns, not just framework glue), and a real evaluation discipline (golden sets, MRR/recall, LLM-as-judge). Strong Python + TypeScript; comfortable with provenance/citation-at-write-time and "emit missing, never guess" correctness thinking. Anthropic/Claude SDK and prompt-caching familiarity is a plus. Not an ML researcher or a model-trainer — this is applied retrieval/agent/eval engineering on a deadline. Bias toward someone who ships and can prove accuracy, not someone who fine-tunes. Signal to screen for: shipped a cited/grounded RAG system, can explain how they'd stop a model from inventing a number, and treats evaluation as a first-class deliverable.

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AI Agent Development
AI Development
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About the client
Member since Jan 22, 2018
  • Canada
    Vancouver5:24 AM
  • $5.3K total spent
    125 hires, 6 active
  • 169 hours
  • Individual client

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