Staff ML Engineer, Search Job at Harmonic (New York)

Staff AI/ML Engineer

At Sigma, we’re not just adding AI—we’re building the future of how people work ...

Location

United States , New York City

Salary:

240000.00 - 270000.00 USD / Year

Sigma Computing

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

10+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems
Deep knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and applied AI
Experience across the full ML lifecycle: data curation, training, deployment, monitoring
A track record of building things that ship—whether it’s recommendations, search, machine translation, or something equally complex
Experience adapting or training foundation models (language or multimodal) for novel domains

Job Responsibility

Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities
Prototype and productionize AI systems that feel intuitive but do a lot under the hood—recommendations, natural language interfaces, agentic workflows, and more
Develop and scale AI/ML infrastructure that powers both internal tooling and customer-facing features
Tackle novel UX problems at the intersection of AI, BI, and apps

What we offer

Equity
Generous health benefits
Flexible time off policy
Paid bonding time for all new parents
Traditional and Roth 401k
Commuter and FSA benefits
Lunch Program
Dog friendly office
Stock options

Fulltime

Staff AI/ML Engineer

At Sigma, we’re not just adding AI—we’re building the future of how people work ...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

240000.00 - 270000.00 USD / Year

Sigma Computing

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

10+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems
Deep knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and applied AI
Experience across the full ML lifecycle: data curation, training, deployment, monitoring
A track record of building things that ship—whether it’s recommendations, search, machine translation, or something equally complex
Experience adapting or training foundation models (language or multimodal) for novel domains

Job Responsibility

Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities
Prototype and productionize AI systems that feel intuitive but do a lot under the hood—recommendations, natural language interfaces, agentic workflows, and more
Develop and scale AI/ML infrastructure that powers both internal tooling and customer-facing features
Tackle novel UX problems at the intersection of AI, BI, and apps

What we offer

Equity
Generous health benefits
Flexible time off policy
Paid bonding time for all new parents
Traditional and Roth 401k
Commuter and FSA benefits
Lunch Program
Dog friendly office
Stock options

Fulltime

Staff Software Engineer

Machine learning platform insights are fundamental to the Chewy customer experie...

Location

United States , Bellevue

Salary:

169500.00 - 271500.00 USD / Year

Chewy

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
12+ years of professional software engineering experience
at least 2+ years in a Staff- or Principal-level technical leadership role
proven success designing and delivering high-performance, distributed systems or large-scale workflows and services
strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python)
proficiency in Terraform and Jenkins
deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and cloud-based deployment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
experience integrating with or supporting ML pipelines, APIs, or data-driven applications
demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions
strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, and data science teams

Job Responsibility

Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale, distributed software systems that enable customer insights and personalization in search and recommendations
Partner with ML/Platform and Data Science teams to bring ML models into customer-facing applications
Collaborate with Principal Engineer to define technical vision and architecture for key Discovery ML workflow and delivery systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business objectives into robust, scalable engineering solutions
Mentor and guide engineers across multiple levels, fostering technical growth and high-quality delivery
Drive initiatives that improve developer productivity, system observability, and operational excellence

What we offer

401k
new hire and annual equity grant
medical/Rx
vision
dental
life
disability
hospital indemnity
critical illness
accident

Fulltime

New

Senior Staff Software Engineer

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader responsible for shapi...

Location

India

Salary:

Not provided

Bloomreach

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems
Strong, hands-on experience building large-scale Search or Information Retrieval systems
Deep expertise in search relevance, ranking, and query/catalog understanding
Proven experience designing and operating distributed, low-latency systems at scale
Strong coding skills in Java and/or Python, with a focus on production-quality, maintainable systems
Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or GCP) and modern deployment platforms
Ability to lead technical initiatives across teams and influence without direct authority
Clear, effective communicator able to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs

Job Responsibility

Own and evolve core Search architecture, spanning indexing, retrieval, ranking, and query-time execution
Lead design and execution of large, cross-cutting search initiatives across multiple teams and services
Drive technical strategy for search relevance and ranking systems, balancing precision, recall, latency, and cost
Partner with Applied Science and ML teams to productionize ranking models and semantic retrieval techniques
Ensure search systems meet strict latency, availability, and scalability SLAs under real-world traffic
Act as a technical mentor and multiplier, raising the bar through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching
Influence roadmap and prioritization by articulating clear technical tradeoffs and long-term platform implications
Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production and architecture decisions

What we offer

A great deal of freedom and trust
Flexible working hours
Work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents
Company events
5 paid days off to volunteer
People Development Program
Communication coach available
Leader Development Program
$1,500 professional education budget annually
Employee Assistance Program with counselors

Fulltime

New

Staff Software Engineer

The Discovery team sits at the core of Harmonic’s product and data engine. We ma...

Location

United States , New York

Salary:

210000.00 - 280000.00 USD / Year

Harmonic

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

7-8+ YoE building distributed systems or large scale backend architecture
Designed and scaled search, recommendation, or ranking systems that balance precision, recall, and performance
Led or heavily contributed to ML or LLM integrations in production
A track record of technical leadership mentoring others, introducing frameworks, and influencing technical direction
Strong experience with data-intensive systems, asynchronous processing, or event-driven architectures

Job Responsibility

Architect the core intelligence behind Scout
Own the end to end architecture of our sourcing engine from data ingestion, ranking, personalization, and model orchestration
Define scalable frameworks for retrieval, reranking, and LLM driven evaluation to ensure we deliver highly personalized and high quality results
Create architectural patterns that integrate Scout seamlessly with our existing products to power repeatable sourcing workflows
Lead agentic experimentation and evaluation
Drive technical discovery for emerging technologies (e.g. memory systems, schema, prompt libraries, embedding models, and agentic frameworks)
Improve and extend our evaluation pipelines to test new models and determine lifts in specific parts of our product
Build systems that allow fast iteration without compromising quality or reliability
Shape AI native product experiences
Partner with product and design to define patterns that make LLM powered sourcing intuitive and fast

What we offer

Top of the line health, dental and vision insurance, with 100% premium covered
401k matching
Free lunch in office
Monthly team dinner for each office
Commuter benefits

New

Member of Technical Staff, Research Tooling & Data Platform

We're looking for an engineer to own Runway's internal exploratory data analysis...

Location

United States

Salary:

240000.00 - 290000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of industry experience in a backend focused software engineering role
Strong experience in at least 2 of 3 areas (platform/infrastructure, ML domain knowledge, frontend/product engineering) with eagerness to learn the third
Platform/infrastructure: experience with vector databases, cloud primitives (i.e. SQS, ECR, Kinesis) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
ML domain knowledge: Understanding of ML workflows, model training, evaluation, testing, dataset management, feature engineering, or research tooling
Product engineering: Ability to build clean, intuitive user experiences with product thinking and user empathy. You care deeply about building tools people love to use (TypeScript/React experience is a plus)
Comfortable setting up and maintaining production infrastructure and services
Self-starter who can navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic technical decisions
Humility and open mindedness

Job Responsibility

Own the EDA platform end-to-end: Take full ownership of architecture, infrastructure, feature development, and operations
Optimize for scale: Improve query performance and write efficiency for vector search, integrate with new data warehouses, and optimize our custom query parsing/suggestion system
Build for researchers: Design and ship features that help ML researchers source data faster, run more effective evaluations, and iterate quickly
Enable cross-functional users: Work with design, product, and creative teams to build intuitive evaluation workflows
Manage infrastructure: Deploy and maintain services across ECS and Kubernetes, including embedding services and database integrations
Provide support: Be responsive to user needs, debug issues quickly, and gather feedback to prioritize improvements

Fulltime

Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core

This role owns large, ambiguous problem spaces directly tied to company metrics ...

Location

Canada

Salary:

204900.00 - 277200.00 CAD / Year

Dropbox

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer
Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
Must have a strong mix of skills and depth across multiple areas, including three or more of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage, concurrency, and modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks

Job Responsibility

Lead the technical delivery of a team of 12 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer outcomes
Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as the DRI for critical company-wide objectives
Own massive, ambiguous technical and product problems that create company-wide opportunity
Be a prolific, hands-on coder who owns and implements the most critical, complex, and foundational components of the system
Influence roadmaps across orgs, breaking silos and steering decisions that change how Dropbox builds
Architect foundational systems that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users
Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment

What we offer

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan
Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more
Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you
Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
Mental health and wellness benefits

Fulltime

Staff Agentic AI Engineer

Ignite the Future of AI at Teradata. At Teradata, we're not just managing data; ...

Location

India , Hyderabad

Salary:

Not provided

Teradata

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years focused on AI/ML, intelligent systems, or agent-based architectures
Deep understanding of software design principles and scalable architecture patterns
Strong experience with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and agentic frameworks (e.g., AutoGen, LangGraph, AgentBuilder, CrewAI)
Proven ability to build complex multi-step workflows using prompt pipelines, tools, and adaptive reasoning
Proficiency in Python and experience with vector databases, API integration, and orchestration tools
Familiarity with agent evaluation metrics: correctness, latency, grounding, and tool use accuracy
Experience leading AI projects from inception to deployment in a production setting
Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
Experience working with multimodal inputs, retrieval systems, or structured knowledge sources

Job Responsibility

Design and implement autonomous AI agents for semantic search, text-to-SQL translation, and analytical task execution
Develop modular prompts, reasoning chains, and decision graphs tailored to complex enterprise use cases
Enhance agent performance through experimentation with LLMs, prompt tuning, and advanced reasoning workflows
Integrate agents with Teradata’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable seamless interaction with model development pipelines
Build tools that allow agents to monitor training jobs, evaluate models, and interact with unstructured and structured data sources
Work on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and extend agents to downstream ML systems

What we offer

People-first culture
Flexible work model
Focus on well-being
Inclusive environment

Fulltime

Staff ML Engineer, Search

Harmonic

Location:
United States , New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

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Job Posted:
January 20, 2026

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