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Playlab seeks a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing Engineering team. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer you'll be continuously experimenting with emerging AI technologies and translating them into capabilities educators can actually use. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge ML and real educational needs - making frontier AI useful, safe, and accessible in educational contexts.
Job Responsibility:
Research, prototype, and implement ML systems that enable educators to build safe, effective AI applications - working with both LLMs and traditional ML models as appropriate
Stay on top of emerging AI research and technologies - evaluate what's relevant for education and integrate what works
Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and educators to ensure ML systems solve real educational needs
Balance experimentation with production excellence - explore cutting-edge techniques while ensuring reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness at scale
Contribute to our open-source ML infrastructure and help establish evaluation standards for educational AI
Mentor engineers on ML systems design and implementation through pairing and reviews
Requirements:
7+ years building and deploying ML systems in production, with recent experience in generative AI and LLMs
Strong understanding of ML fundamentals, model fine-tuning, and evaluation methodologies
Experience building production AI systems - you understand latency, cost optimization, and evaluation challenges
Proficient in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, etc.)
Thrive in high-agency, high collaboration cultures
Great communication that makes working remote-first work
Nice to have:
Experience with RAG systems, vector databases, and knowledge graphs
Background in content moderation, safety systems, or bias detection
Contributions to open source ML projects
Experience with model compression or on-device ML
Experience in education or building in edtech
Experience with educational technology or mission-driven organizations