Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Mural Group
About the role
Location: Remote (US)
Pay: $230,000–$300,000 + bonus + equity
A late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company is hiring a Staff ML Engineer to set the technical direction for its agent systems. This is model and systems work that ships to large enterprise customers, not a thin layer over someone else's API.
What you'll do
Design multi-step LLM systems: reasoning, retrieval, planning and tool use
Own evaluation, from offline benchmarks to online experiments and model-graded review
Find and fix failure modes such as hallucination and tool misuse
Set the quality, latency and cost targets the team builds against
Mentor senior engineers and shape how the group works
What you bring
7+ years shipping ML in production, including LLMs at scale
Led the design of complex, multi-step LLM systems
Depth in transformers, embeddings and retrieval
Evaluation experience beyond single prompts
PyTorch or similar, on distributed cloud infrastructure
BS in CS or a related field; MS or PhD a plus
Nice to have: ML shipped before LLMs, then moved into generative AI; detailed retrieval work (chunking, reranking, evals)
Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.
Responsibilities
- Design multi-step LLM systems for reasoning, retrieval, planning, and tool use
- Own evaluation across offline benchmarks, online experiments, and model-graded review
- Identify and fix failure modes such as hallucination and tool misuse
- Set quality, latency, and cost targets
- Mentor senior engineers and shape team practices
Qualifications
- 7+ years shipping machine learning systems in production, including LLMs at scale
- Experience leading the design of complex, multi-step LLM systems
- Deep knowledge of transformers, embeddings, and retrieval
- Evaluation experience beyond single prompts
- Experience with PyTorch or similar frameworks and distributed cloud infrastructure
- BS in computer science or a related field; MS or PhD is a plus
- Experience shipping machine learning systems before LLMs and moving into generative AI is a plus
- Detailed retrieval experience, including chunking, reranking, and evaluations, is a plus
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
Skills mentioned
About Mural Group
Mural Group is a multi-stage recruiting firm built by industry leading recruiting and staffing experts. We specialize in two distinct verticals--venture backed tech and industrial trades. Mural doesn’t operate like most recruiting firms. We operate like in-house recruiting partners–focused on building and executing a hiring strategy that aligns with your business objectives.