Founding Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

Adaption Labs
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Ownership","Curiosity","Bias toward action"]

Operate at the cutting edge of customer-facing ML work, building production-grade solutions that address diverse domain problems, and serving as a strategic technical partner from discovery through deployment. You’ll translate customer needs into deployed ML improvements, deliver demos to senior stakeholders, and shape product direction from field experience.

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Adaption Labs
Adaption Labs
3 months ago

Founding Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

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Job Summary

Operate at the cutting edge of customer-facing ML work, building production-grade solutions that address diverse domain problems, and serving as a strategic technical partner from discovery through deployment. You’ll translate customer needs into deployed ML improvements, deliver demos to senior stakeholders, and shape product direction from field experience.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Find and Unlock Alpha: Go deep on customer problems and data workflows to identify the highest-leverage opportunities others miss, then build the solutions that capture them.
  • •Ship What's Missing: When the product doesn't cover it, you do. Identify gaps through hands-on customer engagement and implement production-grade ML solutions that fill them.
  • •Raise the Bar: Develop compelling demos, deliver technical presentations to senior stakeholders, and set the standard for what great looks like across our customer base.
  • •Own the Outcome: You're not handing off a deck — you're a strategic and technical partner from discovery through deployment, accountable for results.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Flexible WorkAdaption PassportMeal AllowanceWell-being

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
  • •Strong software engineering skills and familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
  • •Solid understanding of data modeling for training and how curation decisions shape model performance
  • •Experience training or fine-tuning models using human feedback, reward signals, or other adaptive learning techniques
  • •Excellent communication skills and ability to operate across varied customer environments and tech stacks
Experience:4+ yearsApplied MLMachine learningAI
Skills:CommunicationOwnershipCuriosityBias toward action
Tech Stack:PyTorchJAXTensorFlow

Company Brief

Adaption Labs
Adaption Labs delivers AI consulting, engineering, and MLOps services to help organizations design, build, and deploy machine learning and generative AI solutions. They focus on productizing models, integrating AI into production systems, and accelerating digital transformation for enterprise clients.
Industry: Consulting
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