Applied AI / ML Engineer

Catalyst Labs
San Francisco, IL
Category Engineering
Job Description
Catalyst Labs is a leading talent agency with a specialized vertical in Applied AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. We are seeking an Applied AI / ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling commercial machine learning systems in meaningful ownership roles, especially with document understanding and extraction. You will be joining a team of proven builders who have scaled products to acquisition, engineered systems that power billions of data points, and are now applying GenAI to redefine how financial data is understood, structured, and acted upon.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in machine learning / AI engineering with proven end-to-end ownership of ML-powered products
  • Strong track record of building systems that create direct user value
  • Demonstrated ability to work with large, complex datasets, optimizing for accuracy, scalability, and reliability
  • Strong fundamental understanding of how to build, measure, and iterate on ML systems and ML-powered enterprise or consumer products
  • Comfortable with Python and popular ML libraries
  • Experience deploying or integrating LLMs, LLM APIs, Agents and prompt engineering into production systems
  • Strong Python proficiency and hands-on familiarity with ML infrastructure and data workflows
  • Experience in document understanding, OCR, or applied NLP
  • Exposure to financial or tax-related data environments
  • Startup or product experience

Benefits

  • Above market base
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Visa sponsorship
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