Plaud.ai

Plaud.ai

Machine Learning Engineer, Model Evaluations (Speech LLM) - San Francisco

San Francisco, CA · Mid · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$365kDetected 75 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsStatisticsComplianceCadencePro ToolsHIPAAExperimental DesignLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human-AI intelligence through a hardware-software combination.
  • With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.
  • Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

  • Managing large-scale crowdsourcing operations or preference data collection to support RLHF/DPO efforts.
  • A strong background in statistics and experimental design, paired with experience building trusted tracking dashboards (e.g., Weights & Biases, MLflow).
  • Possess strong software engineering skills (especially in Python) and have experience building reliable distributed systems, data pipelines, or evaluation harnesses that can run at scale against live model checkpoints.

Compensation

  • $200K - $365K base salary + performance bonus + Equity.
  • Choice of top-of-the-line laptops/workstations, annual offsites, and a fully stocked office.

Benefits

  • Founding Team Initiative: Opportunity to be an early, foundational member of our core SpeechLLM lab, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
  • Competitive Compensation: $200K - $365K base salary + performance bonus + Equity.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
  • Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full-time employees with company matching.
  • Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
  • New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
  • Gear & Perks: Choice of top-of-the-line laptops/workstations, annual offsites, and a fully stocked office.
  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
  • Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
  • Are comfortable building and owning dashboards that track model health during training, improving signal-to-noise ratios, reducing evaluation latency, and making performance regressions impossible to miss.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.

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