Hiring: Founding Machine Learning Engineer Company: Adaptive Security Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 16:06:38 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Data Pipeline, Java, LLM, Make, OpenAPI, Python, SageMaker, TypeScript About the job Experience: •4+ years of experience building ML systems in production, ideally with experience standing up the ML function at an early stage startup or as the senior or lead ML person at a previous company. Required Skills: •Define Adaptive's ML strategy: where ML should be applied across our products, what infrastructure we need, and how we should approach build vs. buy decisions. •Design and build production ML systems end-to-end — data pipelines, model training, evaluation frameworks, and inference serving. •Establish evaluation methodology. Define how we measure model quality, catch regressions, and make data-driven decisions about model changes. •Own the strategy for getting the data you need, in the format you need it — what/how to label, how to build feedback loops, and how our models improve over time. •Partner with product engineers to integrate ML into the product. You will write production code and work within our existing codebase. •Build and lead the ML team as scope grows. Qualifications: •4+ years of experience building ML systems in production, ideally with experience standing up the ML function at an early stage startup or as the senior or lead ML person at a previous company. •Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write production-quality code in modern languages (Python, Java, TypeScript) and work within large codebases. •Experience with cloud ML infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, Baseten, or similar). •Experience with co Compensation: •Adaptive has raised $146M from top-tier investors including BCV, a16z, NVIDIA, and OpenAI. Our roadmap depends on standing up an ML function that doesn’t yet exist, and we’re ready to compensate accordingly. Expect market level compensation and huge ownership over the ML platform from day one. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!