# Staff ML Engineer

Robots & Pencils is an AWS Partner building production AI systems for enterprise clients who need real engineering, not proofs of concept that never ship. We work forward-deployed, embedded directly with client teams, solving the problems that are too new or too specialized for a typical vendor relationship to handle. The Role We're looking for an engineer who can operate and train models on Amazon SageMaker running on AWS Trainium, AWS's custom silicon built specifically for large-scale model training. This isn't a role where you call an API and wait. You'll be walking up the stack: understanding what a training request actually looks like at the Trainium hardware and compiler level, then carrying that understanding all the way up through PyTorch training code and into a production SageMaker pipeline. PyTorch is the backbone of this work. If you know the framework deeply and you're comfortable reasoning about how your code actually behaves on custom accelerator hardware rather than treating it as a black box, this role is built around that skill set specifically. What You'll Do Train and operate models on Amazon SageMaker with AWS Trainium as the underlying compute Write and optim

- **Id**: 967275
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/robots-pencils-staff-ml-engineer-aws-trainium-sagemaker>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T15:11:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:56:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2556
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: UI/UX Design, Custom Software Development, AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 7662
- **Name**: Robots & Pencils
- **Domain**: robotsandpencils.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/robots-and-pencils>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.714
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 34
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 86000
- **Max usd**: 175000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_cell
- **Sample n**: 26

## Technologies

- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Trainium** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T15:31:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 41
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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