Staff ML Engineer, Frontier AI

Ambience Healthcare· San Francisco, CA

Posted October 27, 2026

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Experience
7+ years
Pay
$244K – $305K per year
Education
Not specified
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work mode
Hybrid
Job type
Full-time

About this role

Ambience Healthcare develops AI intelligence platforms for healthcare systems. The Frontier AI team establishes technical strategy, post-training capabilities, and evaluation frameworks for core clinical AI products.

What you will do

  • Establish AI quality and evaluation strategy across LLM and agentic applications
  • Drive production model improvements across prompting, retrieval, and post-training
  • Shape post-training techniques including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and RL
  • Architect complex multi-model agentic AI workflows and failure recovery systems
  • Co-develop technical roadmaps and mentor engineering teams on ML best practices

What the employer expects

  • 7+ years in production machine learning, research engineering, or applied AI
  • Deep expertise with modern LLMs, transformers, and complex production AI systems
  • Significant experience designing evaluations for complex AI and agentic setups
  • Expertise in post-training and model adaptation techniques
  • Strong Python software engineering and MLOps proficiencies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Flexible paid time off and parental leave
  • Annual company and team off-sites

Skills

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • LLMs
  • Transformers
  • Fine-Tuning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Agentic Systems

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