Open Talent · 9 hours ago
Machine Learning Engineer
El Segundo, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$250K/yr - $500K/yrOpen Talent is a Top 10 hard-tech startup focused on building real hardware with real customers. They are seeking a Founding AI/ML Engineer to develop the production intelligence layer that controls complex machinery, ensuring precision in operational decisions and system deployment.
Human Resources
No H1B
U.S. Citizen OnlyHiring Manager
Sufyan Bashir
Responsibilities
Fine-tuning & deploying models that handle real-time operational decisions where precision is the only metric that matters
Building the RAG systems, data flywheels, & retrieval logic that allow our robots to understand their environment with sub-100ms latency
Designing the testing frameworks & grounding suites required for heavy hardware. You ensure the 'reasoning' holds up when things get messy in the real world
You pick the tools, define the architecture, & own the deployment
Qualification
Required
US Citizenship due to regulatory constraints
Experience shipping & maintaining ML systems in high-bar environments (SpaceX, Tesla, or similar)
Understanding of the full lifecycle from raw telemetry & fine-tuning to inference optimization & hardware constraints
Experience where 'production-ready' means it works every time, & shipping broken code isn't an option
Benefits
Meaningful Founding Equity
Company
Open Talent
🚀 Recruiting elite-tier 0.1% AI/ML, GTM & software engineers in New York City, partnering exclusively with the most ambitious scale-ups from pre-seed through Series D.
City of London, GB
2-10 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase