Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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  • București
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • Acum 15 ore
Contract available only for people based in Romania.Our client is a a YC-backed startup that just raised $2.8M to automate patent infringement detection.Patent enforcement is a billion-dollar industry still running on spreadsheets , they are the first team actually solving it with AI.Tasks
  • Design and deploy ML systems on GCP that map patent claim language to real-world product evidence at scale.
  • Build and iterate on agentic NLP pipelines using a self-hosted Elasticsearch cluster and custom ranking algorithms that interpret claims, identify infringing elements, and produce structured evidence with citations.
  • Own the full ML lifecycle — experiment, evaluate, ship, monitor, fix.
  • Work directly with the founding team to shape technical direction and decide what gets built next.
Requirements
  • Proven track record shipping production ML systems — not demos, not research, things that ran in prod and had users.
  • Strong hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic workflows.
  • Solid Python, GCP, and comfort with self-hosted Elasticsearch or similar large-scale search infrastructure.
  • Good judgment on when to use a simple model vs. when to go deeper.
  • Experience with NLP on dense structured text is a strong plus.
devstaff.aiWe are a founder-led AI staffing partner for startups and scale-ups building next-generation technical teams.We source, vet, and deploy high-caliber AI engineers, LLM specialists, and full-stack developers, primarily from Eastern Europe, directly into your organization.

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