Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ambience

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$204,000 – $255,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 11, 2026

Description

Ambience is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and improve production AI systems for clinical products. The role owns complex projects end-to-end, including evaluation pipelines, production model behavior, agentic systems, data flywheels, research translation, and systems involving models, data, evaluation, orchestration, serving, and observability. The position requires strong production AI, evaluation, agentic systems, Python, and software engineering experience, with a hybrid arrangement involving onsite work at the San Francisco office three days per week.

Required Skills

Production AI
AI Evaluation
Agentic Systems
Python
PyTorch
CI/CD
Active Learning

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of production machine learning, research engineering, or applied AI experience
Experience building a consequential production AI system or materially improving model behavior in production
Experience designing evaluations for LLMs, agents, or other complex AI systems
Experience building production systems involving multiple models, tools, retrieval, context, state, routing, or orchestration
Proficiency in Python and modern machine learning frameworks
Experience with deployment, observability, CI/CD, and containerized systems
Experience building high-quality datasets and feedback loops
Experience using production failures, user feedback, and active learning to improve model and system quality
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with real-time voice, conversational AI, or multimodal systems
Experience with fine-tuning, post-training, or model adaptation
Prior work in healthcare, clinical AI, or other regulated, high-stakes industries
Experience interviewing or mentoring machine learning engineers
Open-source contributions to machine learning, agent, or evaluation tooling