Checkr
Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, California, USA · Mid · full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$25,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date.
- This role sits on the ML team inside Checkr's Data & ML organization within Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy ML/AI services.
- Design, develop, and ship ML models and AI systems that Product Engineering teams rely on.
- Design with LLMs and APIs.
- Use LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) as building blocks in production systems.
- Partner with product and engineering.
- Build evaluation frameworks, run experiments, and make data-driven decisions about model and system performance.
- Put AI to work on your own processes: automate pipelines, build agentic workflows, and contribute reusable skills and context to Checkr's agentic platform.
- Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences.
- you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
Requirements
- experience using LLMs, code-generation tools, or agentic systems in production or operational contexts is a strong signal You can evaluate tradeoffs: fine-tune vs. prompt, hosted vs. self-deployed, classical ML vs.
Nice to have
- For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.
Skills
- Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Compensation
- $168k-$198k
Company info
- Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.
- We're a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission.
- We are looking for someone based in San Francisco who has built ML systems in fast-moving, impact-first environments.
This listing is sourced directly from Checkr's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.