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Compa · 6 hours ago

Software Engineer, Applied AI

positionNewport Beach, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$110K/yr - $220K/yr
date4+ years exp

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will lead projects across Compa’s product suite, focusing on delivering machine learning features and building ML infrastructure to support enterprise customers.

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Responsibilities

Ship ML features and services that enable the world’s best companies to make smarter pay decisions
Lead ML-based projects from end-to-end: scoping and planning, data collection and feature engineering, model training and deployment, backend implementation, and online experimentation
Prototype ML solutions in close collaboration with product and engineering teams, iterating rapidly based on customer feedback and business requirements
Build Compa’s ML infrastructure from the ground up: develop models, establish deployment pipelines, and manage production systems that serve enterprise customers as well as internal operations
Drive technical excellence and establish ML best practices across the team

Qualification

Machine LearningPythonNatural Language ProcessingSQLGitML frameworksCloud platformsDockerCI/CD workflowsExperiment tracking toolsData pipeline technologiesGumption

Required

4+ years of industry experience building and deploying ML models to solve real-world problems and deliver measurable business value
Hands-on experience with classification, embeddings, natural language processing, and large language models
Proficiency in Python, SQL, Git, and common ML frameworks (scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, or similar)
Gumption — experience working at early-stage startups

Preferred

Experience with NLP techniques such as sentence transformers or semantic similarity
Experience with model serving frameworks (FastAPI or similar)
Familiarity with experiment tracking tools (MLflow or similar)
Experience with data pipeline technologies (Prefect or similar)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
Comfortable with Docker and basic CI/CD workflows

Company

Compa

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Compa is making compensation fair and competitive for everyone by removing barriers to effective decision-making.
dateFounded in 2020
location
Newport Beach, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
http://www.compa.ai

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$13.9M
Key Investors
Storm VenturesBase10 Partners
2023-08-15Series A· $10M
2021-08-26Seed· $3.9M

Leadership Team

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Taylor Cone
Co-founder & Chief Experience Officer
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