Applied AI / ML Engineer

Catalyst Labs
Any Location, CA
Job Description
Catalyst Labs is a leading talent agency seeking an Applied AI / ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling commercial machine learning systems. The ideal candidate has a strong track record of creating direct user value, working with large datasets, and optimizing ML systems for accuracy, scalability, and reliability.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in machine learning / AI engineering
  • Proven end-to-end ownership of ML-powered products
  • Strong fundamental understanding of building, measuring, and iterating on ML systems
  • Comfortable with Python and popular ML libraries
  • Cloud providers such as GCP/AWS, container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Web application development including Python-based web servers (e.g. Flask, Django)
  • Database and storage layers (e.g. Postgres, SQL, S3/GCS)
  • 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 01 product experience

Benefits

  • Above market base salary
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Visa sponsorship available for candidates with demonstrated brilliance and expertise
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