Machine Learning Engineer
US$170,000 – US$190,000 / yr base salary
Posted 11 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluations”
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- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$170,000 – US$190,000 / yr |
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Field of studyComputer Science (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
At ASAPP, our mission is simple: deliver the best AI-powered customer experience—faster than anyone else. To achieve that, we’re guided by principles that shape how we think, build, and execute. We value customer obsession, purposeful speed, ownership, and a relentless focus on outcomes. ASAPP’s AI Engineering team is seeking an enterprising, talented and curious machine learning engineer.
The AI Engineering team is responsible for working closely with the research and modeling teams to create state-of-the-art NLP models for specific tasks, and deploy them in a production setting designed to serve our customers at scale. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help build and evaluate the core intelligence behind our agentic AI systems. This role will play a key part in designing and owning evaluation frameworks that ensure quality, safety, and performance across complex agentic systems.
We're looking for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to own and grow the evaluation platform that measures quality, safety, and performance across ASAPP's agentic AI systems- the infrastructure that tells us, with confidence, whether a model or agent change is actually an improvement before it reaches customers.
This a hybrid role with 10-12 days of in-office presence per month to balance flexibility with collaboration.
What you'll do
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Help develop the technical roadmap and architecture for the evaluation platform, from offline benchmarking to online/production monitoring of agentic and LLM-based systems.
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Design eval methodologies appropriate to different stages of the pipeline: golden/regression test sets, human-in-the-loop review workflows, LLM-as-judge approaches, and automated metrics for task success, safety, and hallucinations.
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Build the data infrastructure evaluation depends on: annotation and labeling pipelines, dataset versioning, data quality checks, and tooling that lets researchers and product teams run and interpret experiments without needing platform team help.
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Partner closely with Research, Product, and Platform teams to productize experiments into robust AI solutions
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Represent the eval platform to stakeholders outside the immediate team- set expectations on what "good" looks like for a model/agent release, and report on platform health and coverage.
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Stay current with advancements in ML, NLP, voice, and LLM systems, and contribute actively to technical discussions across teams.
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Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing.