Maple

Maple

ML Research Engineer

New York, NY (HQ) · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 465 days ago
CI/CDMachine LearningPyTorchNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AIA/B TestingElectrical EngineeringResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • As an ML Research Engineer at Maple, you'll be a part of our core product team transforming cutting-edge research into production-ready voice agents, serving millions of interactions for local businesses.
  • We work in person, 5 days a week in our NYC office.
  • Collaboration here is fast, noisy (in the best way), and high-trust.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize speech recognition (ASR), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) for real-world use, ensuring accuracy in diverse, noisy environments.
  • Create human-in-the-loop and automated systems to monitor performance, detect anomalies, and continuously improve models from real-world feedback.
  • Develop pipelines to construct knowledge graphs from business data, powering adaptive AI interactions.
  • Manage rapid experimentation, training, and highly optimized production inference.
  • Lead evaluations, error analysis, and iterative improvements to maintain robustness and scalability.
  • Collaborate with experts from Google Brain, Two Sigma, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, and IBM, rapidly deploying advanced models and systems that directly impact small businesses.

Requirements

  • 3-7+ years deploying impactful ML models, ideally in voice, NLP, knowledge graphs, or agent systems.
  • Proven ability to minimize latency and resource use on GPUs/TPUs or edge hardware.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical expertise.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in PyTorch or JAX
  • optimization experience with CUDA/Triton preferred.

Compensation

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity
  • Full health, dental, vision, 401k, life insurance, and unlimited PTO
  • Fine-tune LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reinforcement learning (RL), and prompt engineering for dynamic, context-aware conversations.

Company info

  • we're building automated ontologies that model how businesses actually operate - their services, workflows, constraints, and language - so our agents can adapt to them instantly.
  • We meet businesses where they are, not where software wants them to be.
  • We have many customers, strong revenue growth, years of runway, and backing from world-class investors.
  • I'll share more once we meet.

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