Machine Learning Engineer Salary in Palo Alto

Machine Learning Engineer jobs in Palo Alto hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $293,874/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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InnoPeak Technology

innopeaktech.com
innopeaktech.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · Headphones & Audio · 51-200 employees · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · Headphones & Audio · 51-200 employees · Trust B · Hiring 4
Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, OPPO US Research Center ( InnoPeak Technology) performs cutting-edge research in smartphone technologies, including but are not limited to computer vision, and video and image processing.
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Open 166 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 6 months ago Long shot · 6%

AI Engineer

$100k – $200k per year · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time
Multimodal AI
NLP
Context Engineering
Prompt Engineering
LLM
AI Agents
Gemini
Anthropic
LangChain
OpenAI
RAG
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Open 385 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Backend Engineer - Recommendation Systems (Contractor)

≈ $149k – $276k per year (Estimated) · Senior · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Contractor · Senior
Java
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
ElasticSearch
Redis
Apache Kafka
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Open 491 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Test Engineer-AI/LLM

$100k – $200k per year · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Weights & Biases
MLFlow
Llama
Gemini
Claude
LLM
LoRA
Fine-tuning
RLHF
PEFT
TruLens
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
GCP
Azure
AWS
QA
Selenium
Pytest
Postman
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Midi Health

joinmidi.com
joinmidi.com · HQ: Menlo Park, United States · Women’s Health & Maternity · Telemedicine & Virtual Care · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 41
HQ: Menlo Park, United States · Women’s Health & Maternity · Telemedicine & Virtual Care · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 41
Midi Health is a virtual care company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and founded in 2021. The company provides telehealth visits with clinicians trained in perimenopause and menopause, covering hormone therapy, sleep, weight, bone health, and mental health for women in midlife. It bills through insurance in all fifty United States states and partners with health systems and employers that lack in-house menopause specialists.
Sharon Meers · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Joanna Stober · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Allison Gates · Director
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Staff Software Engineer, AI Engineer

$200k – $250k per year · Staff+ · 10+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, Palo Alto, United States) · Staff
Python
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Copilot
LLM
NLP
RAG
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Auxia

auxia.io
auxia.io · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · Customer Data Platforms (CDP) & Reverse ETL · 11-50 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · Customer Data Platforms (CDP) & Reverse ETL · 11-50 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
Auxia is a composable, AI-based growth platform reinventing how companies activate, engage, monetize, and retain their customers by offering various integration, marketing, and reporting tools.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 200 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 6%

AI Product Manager

$150k – $225k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
SQL
AI/ML
Agentic Workflows
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
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Pylon

pylonlending.com
pylonlending.com · HQ: Menlo Park, United States · Mortgage Lending & Brokers · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 23, 6 new
HQ: Menlo Park, United States · Mortgage Lending & Brokers · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 23, 6 new
Pylon's mortgage rails empower brokers, fintechs, and lenders to deliver autonomous mortgages and make 102bps+ more per loan.
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Open 203 daysVerified live · 19 min ago 7 months ago Long shot · 11%

Member of Technical Staff, Customer Success

$130k – $220k per year · Staff+ · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Go
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Go
Temporal
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
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Open 203 daysVerified live · 19 min ago 7 months ago Long shot · 11%

Member of Technical Staff, API

$130k – $220k per year · Staff+ · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Go
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Go
Temporal
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
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Open 203 daysVerified live · 19 min ago 7 months ago Long shot · 11%

Member of Technical Staff, Underwriting

$130k – $220k per year · Staff+ · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Go
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Go
Temporal
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
GraphQL
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NeoCognition

neocognition.io
neocognition.io · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · LLM & Generative AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · LLM & Generative AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
NeoCognition is an AI research lab focused on making LLM agents reliable, grounded and accessible to users, developers and enterprises. Its technical staff work on agent research and platform engineering for specialized intelligence. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 207 daysVerified live · 3 min ago Visa sponsor 7 months ago Long shot · 8%

Member of Technical Staff [Platform]

≈ $185k – $368k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Machine Learning
DevOps
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
CI/CD
AWS
Datadog
Configuration Management
Prometheus
Grafana
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Open 207 daysVerified live · 3 min ago Visa sponsor 7 months ago Long shot · 8%

Member of Technical Staff [Agent]

≈ $181k – $360k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
Flask
FastAPI
AI/ML
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
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Open 207 daysVerified live · 3 min ago Visa sponsor 7 months ago Long shot · 8%

Member of Technical Staff [Research]

≈ $196k – $389k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
RLHF
JAX
Function Calling
Post-training
Computer Use
Multi-Agent Systems
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Llama
Mistral
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Axiom

axiommath.ai
axiommath.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · Machine Learning · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 3, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · Machine Learning · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 3, 1 new
Axiom is a research company building an artificial intelligence system for mathematics that can prove theorems and generate new results rather than only assist a human mathematician. Its work combines formal verification, proof search and reinforcement learning over symbolic reasoning, with the goal of a self improving mathematical reasoner. The laboratory was founded by researchers who see mathematics as the cleanest testbed for verifiable machine reasoning; its long term target is mathematics that machines can verify end to end without human checking.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 213 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 7 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff

≈ $195k – $388k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, Portland, United States, London, United Kingdom) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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Nace.AI

nace.ai
nace.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Education AI · LLM & Generative AI · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 15
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Education AI · LLM & Generative AI · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 15
Nace.AI was born from our collective experiences at Google, Meta, Amazon, and the University of Toronto. We build trustworthy AI systems that run companies.
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Research Engineer

≈ $166k – $320k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · PhD · Full-Time · Senior
Python
AI/ML
JAX
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Machine Learning
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Ludo Robotics

ludorobotics.com
ludorobotics.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Robotic Software & Control Systems · Industrial Robotics · Logistics & Warehouse Robotics · Likely startup · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Robotic Software & Control Systems · Industrial Robotics · Logistics & Warehouse Robotics · Likely startup · Hiring 4
Ludo Robotics is a robotics company dedicated to building general-purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adaptive in real-world scenarios, using data-driven machine learning at scale. It hires robotics and AI research engineers and offers research fellowships in Palo Alto and Seoul. The company is based in San Francisco, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 235 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 8 months ago Long shot · 4%

ML/AI Engineer

$98k – $305k per year · Equity · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
Vision-Language-Action
Machine Learning
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
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Aida

getaida.com
getaida.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · CRM Software · Custom Software Development · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · CRM Software · Custom Software Development · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Your reps are outnumbered. To win their deals they must track thousands of signals. No human can do it. Aida is a Digital Twin built to run alongside every rep, continuously, carrying full context, helping them execute deals.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 250 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 4%

AI Engineer

≈ $147k – $327k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Anthropic
OpenAI
LLM
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Foothill Ventures

foothill.ventures
foothill.ventures · Palo Alto · Real Estate Investment · 201-500 employees · Hiring 1
Palo Alto · Real Estate Investment · 201-500 employees · Hiring 1
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California. We make seed and A-round investments in startups across software, life sciences and deep tech.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 279 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 10 months ago Long shot · 6%

Full Stack Engineer - Doable AI

≈ $125k – $247k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Senior · English
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
CI/CD
QA
Selenium
Playwright
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Mind Robotics

mindrobotics.com
mindrobotics.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Robotics AI · Industrial Robotics · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 28
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Robotics AI · Industrial Robotics · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 28
Mind Robotics builds intelligent, broadly capable robots for industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. The company develops physical AI and hires mechanical design engineers, software engineers for edge, field and data platform systems, and technical program managers. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Research Engineer

≈ $163k – $363k per year (Estimated) · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
JAX
VLM
Physical AI
PyTorch
LLM
Embodied AI
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Parallel

parallel.ai
parallel.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Search · AI Agents · 201-500 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 24
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Search · AI Agents · 201-500 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 24
Parallel Web Systems builds web search and research APIs for AI agents, used by developers and enterprises that need agents to find and synthesize public web data. It runs its own web-scale index of billions of pages updated daily and offers a Search API, a Task API for web enrichment and deep research with citations, and related tools for automated data collection. Founded in 2023 by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, it serves more than 100,000 developers and customers such as Clay, Harvey and Notion, and has raised $230 million, including a $100 million Series B led by Sequoia in 2026.
Parag Agrawal · Founder & CEO · decision-maker
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Open 282 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsorship 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Early Career Research Engineer

$150k – $300k per year · Junior · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
LLM
AI Agents
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Darwin

darwin.cx
darwin.cx · Palo Alto · Toronto · Publishing · Billing & Subscription Management · Est. 1994 · Hiring 1
Palo Alto · Toronto · Publishing · Billing & Subscription Management · Est. 1994 · Hiring 1
Darwin CX unifies print, digital, memberships, and commerce in one platform, helping publishers automate operations and grow recurring revenue.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 289 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff

$100k – $500k per year · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
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RISA Labs

risalabs.ai
risalabs.ai · HQ: New York, United States · Cancer Care Centers · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 5
HQ: New York, United States · Cancer Care Centers · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 5
AI-powered operating system for oncology. Automate workflows, reduce treatment delays, and accelerate care delivery. Book a demo with RISA Labs.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 294 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 10 months ago Long shot · 4%

AI Engineer

≈ $121k – $272k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Junior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
NLP
TensorFlow
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
LLM
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
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Gallatin

gallatin.ai
gallatin.ai · HQ: El Segundo, United States · Military · Logistics · Artificial Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Trust A · Hiring 24
HQ: El Segundo, United States · Military · Logistics · Artificial Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Trust A · Hiring 24
Gallatin is building a logistics platform based on the needs and constraints of today's defense industry.
No named decision-maker yet.
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AI Software Engineer

$80k – $210k per year · Equity · In office (El Segundo, Washington, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Austin, United States) · Full-Time
C++
Python
C++
TensorFlow C++
Databases
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Airflow
dbt
Fine-tuning
Llama
Mistral
CUDA
Anthropic
Hugging Face
TensorFlow
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
LLM
DevOps
Kibana
Amazon Kinesis
Grafana
AWS
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Argmax

argmax.org
argmax.org · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Research Labs · Machine Learning · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Research Labs · Machine Learning · Trust B · Hiring 3
Patrick van der Smagt - Publications. Publications list generated from BibTeX. Click on any title to search on Google Scholar.
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Open 344 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 12 months ago Long shot · 3%

On-device AI Frameworks Engineer (Intern)

Intern · 1+ year exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Internship · Intern
Kotlin
Swift
C++
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Edge AI
ONNX
MLX ML
LiteRT
ExecuTorch
Frontend
WebGPU
Mobile
Core ML
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Open 369 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 9%

On-device AI Frameworks Engineer (Staff)

≈ $188k – $374k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Staff
Swift
Python
Kotlin
JavaScript
AI/ML
ONNX
MLX ML
Edge AI
LiteRT
ExecuTorch
Frontend
WebGPU
Mobile
Core ML
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Voltai

voltai.com
voltai.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Agents · EDA Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 33
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Agents · EDA Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 33
Voltai develops world models and AI agents that learn, evaluate, plan and experiment, starting with understanding and building hardware such as electronics systems and semiconductors. It hires machine learning engineers, full-stack engineers, enterprise sales executives and engineering managers. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Research Engineer - CUDA Kernel Engineering

≈ $168k – $373k per year (Estimated) · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
vLLM
Reinforcement Learning
CUDA
Triton
Megatron-LM
NCCL
NVLink
World Models
PyTorch
DevOps
HPC
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Research Engineer - Mid-Training

≈ $171k – $381k per year (Estimated) · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
Reinforcement Learning
World Models
Model Distillation
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Research Engineer - Post-Training

≈ $171k – $380k per year (Estimated) · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
Post-training
World Models
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Powerline

drivepowerline.com
drivepowerline.com · HQ: Melbourne, Australia · Industrial AI · Fleet Management · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: Melbourne, Australia · Industrial AI · Fleet Management · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
Independent fleet-level AI for accurate performance benchmarking, optimized market strategy, and strong portfolio growth.
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Open 391 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 7%

AI Engineer

≈ $176k – $364k per year (Estimated) · Lead · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Pydantic AI
Time Series
LangChain
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
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Typeface

typeface.ai
typeface.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Agents · Content Creation · LLM & Generative AI · Marketing & Sales AI · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 18
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Agents · Content Creation · LLM & Generative AI · Marketing & Sales AI · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 18
Typeface is a company founded in 2022 by a former Adobe chief technology officer to generate on-brand marketing content with artificial intelligence. Its platform learns a company's brand voice, products and visual identity, then produces copy, imagery and campaign assets that stay consistent across channels. It sells to enterprise marketing teams and integrates with Microsoft, Google and Salesforce tools.
Abhay Parasnis · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Ravi Mhatre · Director
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Senior ML Engineer

$188k – $200k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Master's Degree · Senior
C++
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Amazon SageMaker
Machine Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
AWS
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Bright

bright.ai
bright.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Edge AI · Industrial AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2015 · Trust A · Hiring 9, 3 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Edge AI · Industrial AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2015 · Trust A · Hiring 9, 3 new
BrightAI deploys autonomous AI devices, edge sensors, and foundation models to transform critical infrastructure from reactive to proactive. Maximize asset life and eliminate catastrophic downtime.
Cathy Smith · Executive Officer · decision-maker
G. Mikan · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Keith Nelsen · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Mike Mikan · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Open 451 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 11%

AI Engineer, Time-Series Signal Processing

≈ $119k – $267k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Junior
Python
AI/ML
DVC
MLFlow
SHAP
XGBoost
Multimodal AI
LightGBM
ONNX
TFLite
Keras
Anomaly Detection
Time Series
LiteRT
Interpretability
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
Linux
CI/CD
Management
Agile
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in Palo Alto
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