Senior Ai/ml Engineer

Sigma Computing Sigma Computing · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Senior AI/ML Engineer at Sigma Computing to build and scale the AI foundation for their data platform, focusing on recommendations, natural language interfaces, and agentic workflows. Requires extensive experience in production AI/ML systems and the full ML lifecycle.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prototype and productionize AI systems that feel intuitive but do a lot under the hood—recommendations, natural language interfaces, agentic workflows, and more
  2. Develop and scale AI/ML infrastructure that powers both internal tooling and customer-facing features
  3. Tackle novel UX problems at the intersection of AI, BI, and apps
  4. Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • 10+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems
  • Deep knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and applied AI
  • Experience across the full ML lifecycle: data curation, training, deployment, monitoring
  • A track record of building things that ship—whether it’s recommendations, search, machine translation, or something equally complex
  • Experience adapting or training foundation models (language or multimodal) for novel domains

Nice to have

  • built agents that can plan, reason, and use tools
  • know your way around cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • worked in a fast-moving startup or high-growth environment

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems
  • Experience across the full ML lifecycle: data curation, training, deployment, monitoring
  • A track record of building things that ship—whether it’s recommendations, search, machine translation, or something equally complex
  • adapting or training foundation models

Other signals

  • building AI foundation
  • productionize AI systems
  • scale AI/ML infrastructure
  • full ML lifecycle