Founding Engineer, ML Systems

Overview

Remote
$100,000 - $120,000
Full Time
No Travel Required

Skills

snowflake
bigquery
databricks
postgre
airflow
fastapi
sqlalchemy

Job Details

  • Have 5+ years building ML systems in production (not just notebooks)
  • Are fluent in Python + SQL
  • Know classical ML cold: time-series, GLMs/GBTs, cohorting, residual analysis.
  • Can design data-intensive systems
  • Write clean, tested code and enjoy the craft
  • Operate with high autonomy
  • Have domain curiosity for risk/credit/fraud even if you haven t worked in it before.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks, Postgres/pgvector, and Airflow/Prefect/dbt.
  • Time-series & anomaly tooling
  • Model monitoring/eval platforms
  • Early-stage or first/second engineer experience; you ve owned greenfield builds.
  • Familiarity with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and a bit of TypeScript for web dev.
  • Practical LLM/agents exposure or the appetite to learn it quickly.

How we work

  • Small team, high bar, lots of autonomy. You ll collaborate closely with the founder (specs, PRs, product shaping) and own large surface area end-to-end.
  • Quality code > fastest time to ship
  • Clear writing and simple designs. One good RFC is better than three ad-hoc meetings.
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