# Applied ML Engineer

Applied ML Engineer The Role We’re looking for an Applied ML Engineer to build systems at the intersection of machine learning research and production software. This is an end-to-end engineering role. You should be comfortable reading a research paper, identifying what is actually testable, building the smallest useful experiment, evaluating it rigorously, and turning the result into a production system that users can interact with. You’ll work across model evaluation, model internals, inference infrastructure, backend systems, and product interfaces. The goal is not simply to reproduce research. It is to turn promising methods into reliable, measurable, and usable products. What You’ll Do Reproduce and evaluate research methods using open-weight and API-accessible models. Design evaluation datasets, probes, scoring methods, baselines, calibration tests, and experiment harnesses. Work directly with model weights, logits, hidden states, activations, model APIs, and inference infrastructure when required. Build and extend our evaluation infrastructure, including runners, judges, persistence, experiment orchestration, and reporting. Turn research workflows into product experiences

- **Id**: 1149421
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sentient-applied-ml-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Singapore, Hong Kong, Austin, United States
- **Countries**: SG, HK, US
- **Hiring countries**: US, CN, IN, JP, GB, AU, ID, MY, NZ, PK, PH, KR, TW, TH, VN, AS, BD, BT, BN, KH, CK, TL, FJ, PF, GU, KI, LA, MV, MH, FM
- **Hiring countries total**: 51
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T13:56:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T07:20:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5246
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents

## Company

- **Id**: 2149083
- **Name**: Sentient
- **Domain**: sentient.xyz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sentient-xyz>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **DSPy** — Optional: yes
- **Interpretability** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LiteLLM** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **pgvector** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **China** — Iso: CN; Kind: region
- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: region
- **Japan** — Iso: JP; Kind: region
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: region
- **Indonesia** — Iso: ID; Kind: region
- **Malaysia** — Iso: MY; Kind: region
- **New Zealand** — Iso: NZ; Kind: region
- **Pakistan** — Iso: PK; Kind: region
- **Philippines** — Iso: PH; Kind: region
- **South Korea** — Iso: KR; Kind: region
- **Taiwan** — Iso: TW; Kind: region
- **Thailand** — Iso: TH; Kind: region
- **Vietnam** — Iso: VN; Kind: region
- **American Samoa** — Iso: AS; Kind: region
- **Bangladesh** — Iso: BD; Kind: region
- **Bhutan** — Iso: BT; Kind: region
- **Brunei Darussalam** — Iso: BN; Kind: region
- **Cambodia** — Iso: KH; Kind: region
- **Cook Islands** — Iso: CK; Kind: region
- **East Timor** — Iso: TL; Kind: region
- **Fiji** — Iso: FJ; Kind: region
- **French Polynesia** — Iso: PF; Kind: region
- **Guam** — Iso: GU; Kind: region
- **Kiribati** — Iso: KI; Kind: region
- **Laos** — Iso: LA; Kind: region
- **Maldives** — Iso: MV; Kind: region
- **Marshall Islands** — Iso: MH; Kind: region
- **Micronesia** — Iso: FM; Kind: region
- **Mongolia** — Iso: MN; Kind: region
- **Nauru** — Iso: NR; Kind: region
- **Nepal** — Iso: NP; Kind: region
- **New Caledonia** — Iso: NC; Kind: region
- **Niue** — Iso: NU; Kind: region
- **Norfolk Island** — Iso: NF; Kind: region
- **Northern Mariana Islands** — Iso: MP; Kind: region
- **Palau** — Iso: PW; Kind: region
- **Papua New Guinea** — Iso: PG; Kind: region
- **Pitcairn Islands** — Iso: PN; Kind: region
- **Samoa** — Iso: WS; Kind: region
- **Solomon Islands** — Iso: SB; Kind: region
- **Sri Lanka** — Iso: LK; Kind: region
- **Tokelau** — Iso: TK; Kind: region
- **Tonga** — Iso: TO; Kind: region
- **Tuvalu** — Iso: TV; Kind: region
- **Vanuatu** — Iso: VU; Kind: region
- **Wallis and Futuna** — Iso: WF; Kind: region
- **Hong Kong** — Iso: HK; Kind: country
- **Singapore** — Iso: SG; Kind: country
- … 2 more in the JSON form

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-23T16:59:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.528
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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