# Founding ML Engineer

About the Company Philyron is building the predictive brain for commercial fleets from tankers, cargo ships to defense vessels. We use real-time sensor data and historical maintenance records to predict and explain engine failures before they happen. The Role We're hiring a founding ML engineer to own the AI systems at the heart of the product. You'll work directly with the founders and own the full loop: data, training, evals, and shipping models into production. What You'll Do Connectivity - get data off the ship. Ships have terrible, intermittent connectivity. You'll build the pipeline that moves sensor data from a vessel's edge device to our cloud reliably over satellite links (VSAT / Starlink) - using lightweight, fault-tolerant protocols (MQTT / Sparkplug B), with encryption in transit and graceful handling of connections that drop for days at a time and resume. Cloud backbone - land it and make it usable. You'll stand up our cloud architecture (AWS): a real-time "hot path" that checks incoming sensor metrics against safety thresholds and fires instant alerts, and a "cold path" that stores high-frequency time-series data for trend analysis and model training. You'll also buil

- **Id**: 3952537
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/a16z-speedrun-founding-ml-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T04:35:14Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:35:14Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4398864
- **Name**: a16z speedrun
- **Domain**: speedrun.a16z.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/a16z-speedrun>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T04:52:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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