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MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER (GENERAL)

makermaker.aiSan FranciscoTechnical Staff
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Salary
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Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior · 6+ yrs
Posted
16 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

makermaker.ai seeks a Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco to construct and maintain core machine learning systems and pipelines for autonomous research agents. This senior position suits professionals with extensive production experience who enjoy bridging research and large-scale deployment.

Role Overview

The Machine Learning Engineer position at makermaker.ai focuses on building and supporting the infrastructure that powers recursive self-improvement research agents. Operating on-site in San Francisco, this role bridges experimental research and reliable production environments, requiring ownership of training, evaluation, and deployment systems.

Key Responsibilities

Construct and sustain training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines to support ongoing research.
Transition research prototypes into production through refactoring, hardening, instrumentation, and testing.
Implement observability features such as metrics, logs, traces, and evaluation dashboards for machine learning systems.
Manage data pipelines for training and evaluation involving ingestion, deduplication, versioning, and validation.
Collaborate daily with researchers to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and address needs.
Establish engineering standards covering testing, code reviews, and runbooks across the machine learning stack.
Participate in architectural decisions governing the interaction between research and production.

Requirements

Minimum of 6 years of experience as a senior machine learning engineer building production-grade systems.
Demonstrated background covering the complete lifecycle from data ingestion to monitoring and deployment.
Practical distributed systems experience with reliable uptime.
Proficiency in Python alongside fluency in PyTorch or JAX, with systems-level familiarity.
Familiarity with experimentation infrastructure tools such as Ray, Slurm, or Kubernetes.
Strong written communication skills and a preference for shipping working code.

Nice to Have

Background in building experimentation platforms or research infrastructure within a frontier machine learning laboratory.
Experience with distributed training systems.
History of open-source contributions directed toward machine learning infrastructure.
Previous collaboration within small, senior teams.

Skills and Tools

Python
PyTorch
JAX
Ray
Slurm
Kubernetes

About the Company

makermaker.ai operates as a small team located on-site in San Francisco. The organization builds autonomous research agents designed for recursive self-improvement through multi-agent systems that propose, execute, and analyze machine learning experiments.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official makermaker.ai careers page to submit an application for this role.

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Questions candidates ask

Where is the job located?

The position is on-site in San Francisco.

What is the primary focus of the role?

The role focuses on building and maintaining production-grade ML systems, pipelines, and infrastructure to support autonomous research agents.

How many years of experience are required?

The position requires 6+ years of experience as a senior machine learning engineer building production-grade systems.

What programming languages and frameworks are required?

Candidates must be fluent in Python and at least one of PyTorch or JAX.

Is this a research or an engineering role?

This is primarily an engineering role focused on building infrastructure and translating research code into production systems.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official makermaker.ai careers page.

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