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Harrison Clarke

Machine Learning Engineer

san francisco, CA

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Job description

We’re partnering with an early-stage AI infrastructure company building foundational technology for the next generation of AI and agent-based systems.

The team is looking for a highly technical Machine Learning Engineer to work at the intersection of LLM systems, AI agents, inference and performance engineering. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on understanding and improving how production AI workloads execute, scale and perform.

You’ll work across AI infrastructure, agent systems, inference optimization, distributed execution and runtime performance. This is particularly well suited to engineers who enjoy going deeper than simply consuming models or agent frameworks and want to work on the underlying systems that determine how AI workloads behave and perform.

Responsibilities:

Design and build infrastructure for production AI and agent workloads

Improve the performance, efficiency and reliability of AI systems

Work across inference, execution, runtime and distributed systems challenges

Identify bottlenecks across complex production workloads and develop systems‑level solutions

Build new infrastructure from first principles rather than simply integrating existing tools

Help shape core technical architecture as one of the earliest engineers

What we're looking for:

Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals

Experience building complex production systems

Depth in areas such as distributed systems, performance engineering, runtimes, databases, compilers, inference or AI infrastructure

Meaningful experience working with modern LLM or agent systems

Ability to operate across multiple layers of the stack

Comfortable working in a highly ambiguous, early‑stage environment

Strong ownership mentality and interest in building from zero to one

You do not need to have trained foundation models or come from a traditional ML research background. We're particularly interested in strong systems engineers who have moved deeper into AI infrastructure and agent systems.

Previous startup experience is helpful but not required. Technical depth, curiosity and the ability to build are more important than title or years of experience.

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san francisco, CA, 94199, US

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