Role: AI/ML Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY (onsite)

Salary: $150-200k DOE (w2)

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Clutch is looking for an AI/ML Engineer for a start-up client of ours.

Responsibilities:

• Design, optimize, and deploy production of ML infrastructure, vector search engines, and LLM workflows.
• Establish rigorous automated evaluation frameworks to benchmark model performance, bias, and output accuracy.
• Build pipelines for automated data labeling, model deployment, and analytical data processing.
• Debug model behaviors to guarantee trust in mission-critical applications.
• Partner directly with company leaders to shape technical architecture, product direction, and engineering standards.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of production software engineering experience with demonstrated leadership in technical decision-making.
• Proven track record of shipping and scaling LLM solutions, models, and AI infrastructure.
• Strong instinct for model interpretability, evaluation metrics, and debugging AI systems.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, start-up environments.
• Exceptional communication skills and high standards for technical quality and execution.

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