# Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role This is a staff-level role for a seasoned AI/ML engineer who can operate at the intersection of research and production. You'll serve as the technical bridge between our research and applied engineering teams - translating cutting-edge ideas into robust, scalable systems while setting the strategic direction for how we train, evaluate, and deploy models. Deeply hands-on, but able to zoom out and set the agenda. We're looking for someone who has been here before. Built the infra, shaped the strategy, and knows what good looks like at every layer of the ML stack. What You Will be Doing Bridge research and applied engineering, ensuring ideas move from concept to production with rigor and speed Own training and evaluation infrastructure, including tuning, modeling pipelines, and evaluation frameworks Build and evolve feature stores that serve both model development and production workloads Optimize agentic workflows end-to-end for performance, reliability, and scale Set technical strategy for how zaimler trains, evaluates, and deploys models as the platform grows Partner closely with leadership to define the ML roadmap and make key architectural decisions Prior Experienc

- **Id**: 764193
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zaimler-staff-applied-machine-learning-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Mateo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2024-11-27T17:16:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2024-11-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T03:35:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 710
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2136
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Knowledge Graphs

## Company

- **Id**: 687658
- **Name**: Zaimler
- **Domain**: zaimler.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zaimler>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.111
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 231
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 188000
- **Max usd**: 375000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 890

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Feature Store** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 709

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T19:26:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.55
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 709
- **Expected fill days**: 231
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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