Principal Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role

A1 is building a proactive AI system that understands context across conversations, plans actions, and carries work forward over time.

You will be responsible for turning research direction into working, production-grade ML systems. This role owns the execution layer of A1’s intelligence – training pipelines, inference systems, evaluation tooling, and deployment.

Focus

• Build and own end-to-end ML pipelines spanning data, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment.

• Fine-tune and adapt models using state-of-the-art methods such as LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation.

• Architect and operate scalable inference systems, balancing latency, cost, and reliability.

• Design and maintain data systems for high-quality synthetic and real-world training data.

• Implement evaluation pipelines covering performance, robustness, safety, and bias, ...