# Founding ML Engineer (India)

About the role Skills: Python, PyTorch, NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, Entity Resolution, Text Classification We're building the gateway to the internet for AI agents. Our APIs already power hundreds of customers - and we went from 0 to $7M ARR in our first 12 months. Now we need someone who can push the boundaries of what our ML systems can do. We're hiring a Founding ML Engineer to own the research and engineering behind our core intelligence layer. Our platform indexes hundreds of millions of professional profiles and company records from across the web. Making that data searchable, matchable, and enriched is an ML problem at its core. This is not an MLOps role. You will be researching, training, and shipping models - from paper to prototype to production. Who you are 3+ years building and shipping ML models in production - NLP, information retrieval, or entity resolution Strong with transformer architectures - you've trained and fine-tuned encoder models, not just called APIs You know how to build and evaluate retrieval systems, classifiers, and embedding models Comfortable with contrastive learning, metric learning, and representation learning Experience using LLMs for stru

- **Id**: 1240382
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/crustdata-founding-ml-engineer-india>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:39:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:24:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2957
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: B2B Company & Contact Data

## Company

- **Id**: 2397442
- **Name**: Crust Data
- **Domain**: crustdata.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/crustdata>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 7000000
- **Max**: 18500000
- **Currency**: INR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 197302

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Contrastive Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:39:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.626
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 197302
- **Is top pay**: yes

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