Machine Learning Research Engineer (San Francisco)

Machine Learning Research Engineer

Prophecy is the world's most advanced data integration platform, designed to make complex data work simple and powerful. Designed natively for modern cloud data platforms, Prophecy uniquely serves the needs of business analysts while ensuring enterprise-grade governance and compliance, giving organizations the confidence to innovate. Our AI-driven platform simplifies and automates data preparation, accelerating AI and analytics across Fortune 500 companies in banking, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, and technology. By enabling secure, self-service data transformation within a robust governance framework, Prophecy empowers every data user to develop, deploy, and monitor cloud-native data pipelines with ease. Today, Prophecy supports tens of thousands of pipelines, delivering clean, trusted, and timely data at scale to power the most demanding AI and analytics workloads.

Must-Have Skills :

• Advanced ML / LLM knowledge : hands-on fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, RLHF), distillation, quantization / pruning for model optimization.
• Full ML lifecycle : from data acquisition to training to productization with PyTorch and open-source transformers (e.g., HuggingFace).
• Fluency in Python for dataset / model processing.
• Experience with backend pipelines / microservices software development in public cloud : AWS, k8s, java, scala.
• Builder mentality : Experience taking ideas to production.

What Will Make You Stand Out :

Seniority : Jr to Staff Level

Experience : 1+ years in industry

Compensation : $250,000$350,000

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Benefits and Perks

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Prophecy, we hire for merit and foster an inclusive culture where people from diverse backgrounds can excel and do their best work. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Prophecy are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and any other protected characteristics under applicable laws.