Staff ML Engineer

Principal Machine Learning Engineer | Generative AII'm partnering with a top industry-leading global financial institution that's building one of the largest enterprise Generative AI platforms in the world.Compensation$280K-$325K Base + Bonus + Equity (Total Comp 550k-650k)They're looking for an exceptional Principal Machine Learning Engineer to help build production-scale LLM systems that are transforming how hundreds of thousands of employees work every day.LocationNew York City, NY or Palo Alto, CA5 days/week onsiteWhat You'll Work OnBuild scalable LLM-powered products and reusable AI platforms deployed across the enterprise.Design production-grade ML systems focused on performance, reliability, and scale.Develop applications spanning chatbots, AI agents, workflow automation, text-to-code, and intelligent data interactions.Partner closely with AI Research, Cloud Engineering, and Platform teams to bring cutting-edge research into production.Solve challenging distributed systems and large-scale ML engineering problems using modern cloud infrastructure.What They're Looking ForPhD (or equivalent research experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.Strong production ML engineering experience with modern LLMs and foundation models.Experience building scalable distributed systems using technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, Ray, DeepSpeed, Horovod, or similar frameworks.Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to take ideas from research to production.Passion for solving complex technical problems with minimal direction.Why This Team?Build AI products used by hundreds of thousands of employees across a global organization.High-impact, high-visibility work with direct exposure to executive leadership.Technical direction and priorities are driven by the firm's Operating Committee, giving the team exceptional visibility and influence.Opportunity to ship production solutions that can reach enterprise-wide adoption almost immediately.Work alongside some of the industry's strongest ML engineers and researchers on cutting-edge Generative AI initiatives.If you're passionate about building production AI systems at massive scale, I'd love to connect.