Machine Learning​/AI Engineer

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Protingent Staffing offers an exciting contract opportunity in San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY.

• Prototype, develop, and iterate on new product areas for our client, providing customers powerful AI tools for transforming data and reducing emissions.
• Productionize and launch core technologies to power AI features on top of operational sustainability data.
• Collaborate with product and other AI engineering teams to set product and technical strategy.
• Build evaluations, fine‑tune, and create agent harnesses to build reliable AI‑powered systems.
• Keep up with developments and state-of-the-art in AI to determine relevance.
• Write performant, well‑crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack.

• 8+ years of experience in Machine Learning / AI engineering.
• Experience building products using LLMs, embeddings, and other ML technologies.
• Full lifecycle experience building, deploying, and monitoring products that leverage LLMs, embeddings, or other ML technologies.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams in an innovative fast‑moving environment.
• A strong foundational understanding of machine learning models and practice, including model evaluation and performance.
• Strong full‑stack development skills.

Job Type: Direct Hire

Location:

San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY

Salary Range: $247-297K