BILT Incorporated · 13 hours ago
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Grapevine, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
8+ years expBILT Incorporated is a fast-growing software-as-a-service company revolutionizing instructions and training for consumers and professional technicians alike. They are seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to serve as a technical leader on their AI team, tackling ambiguous, research-oriented problems and designing novel ML systems.
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Responsibilities
Serve as the technical anchor for the AI team, driving architectural decisions and setting the standard for engineering excellence
Tackle ambiguous, research-oriented problems—from initial exploration through production deployment
Design and build novel ML systems spanning multimodal understanding, generation, and spatial reasoning
Fine-tune, adapt, and extend foundation models to our unique domain, developing robust evaluation frameworks and training pipelines
Own critical infrastructure including training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and model serving
Mentor and elevate other engineers through technical guidance, code review, and knowledge sharing
Partner closely with the Director of AI and CTO to shape technical strategy and roadmap
Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in machine learning, with a track record of shipping complex systems to production
Deep expertise in modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch strongly preferred)
Experience with LLMs, multimodal models, or related areas—not just fine-tuning, but understanding architectures deeply enough to extend and adapt them
Comfort with research-oriented work: reading papers, prototyping novel approaches, and navigating problems without clear solutions
Strong software engineering foundations—you write clean, maintainable, production-quality code
Ability to work autonomously and drive projects from ambiguous problem statements to working systems
Preferred
Experience with Vision-Language Models, VLA architectures, or embodied AI
Background in 3D understanding, CAD, spatial reasoning, computer graphics, or geometric deep learning
Expertise in model optimization, efficient inference, and deployment at scale
Publications, open-source contributions, or demonstrated research impact
Experience as a technical lead or foundational engineer at a high-growth startup
Company
BILT Incorporated
The award-winning BILT platform delivers official 3D Intelligent Instructions® from the world's top brands.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$33.55MKey Investors
Silverton PartnersAFWERX
2024-12-16Series B· $21M
2022-07-21Grant· $1.7M
2021-07-29Series Unknown· $9M
Leadership Team
Nathan Henderson
Chairman & CEO
Mitch Dawson
Chief Technology Officer
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