Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Location: Remote (US) Pay: $230,000–$300,000 + bonus + equity A late-stage, venture-backed enterprise AI company is hiring a Staff ML Engineer to set the technical direction for its agent systems. This is model and systems work that ships to large enterprise customers, not a thin layer over someone else's API. What you'll do Design multi-step LLM systems: reasoning, retrieval, planning and tool use Own evaluation, from offline benchmarks to online experiments and model-graded review Find and fix failure modes such as hallucination and tool misuse Set the quality, latency and cost targets the team builds against Mentor senior engineers and shape how the group works What you bring 7+ years shipping ML in production, including LLMs at scale Led the design of complex, multi-step LLM systems Depth in transformers, embeddings and retrieval Evaluation experience beyond single prompts PyTorch or similar, on distributed cloud infrastructure BS in CS or a related field; MS or PhD a plus Nice to have: ML shipped before LLMs, then moved into generative AI; detailed retrieval work (chunking, reranking, evals) Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.