--- title: "Machine Learning Engineer" description: "About Us: At Nace AI, we are redefining how professional services operate by delivering Sovereign Specialized Intelligence. As an applied research and produc…" canonical: "https://nace.ai/careers/f7c756f4-8260-4032-8a49-2583e09b2087" updated: 2026-03-17 --- # Machine Learning Engineer > About Us: At Nace AI, we are redefining how professional services operate by delivering Sovereign Specialized Intelligence. As an applied research and produc… Engineering · Palo Alto, CA · Full-time [Apply for this position](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai/f7c756f4-8260-4032-8a49-2583e09b2087/application) About Us: At Nace AI, we are redefining how professional services operate by delivering Sovereign Specialized Intelligence. As an applied research and product company, we equip enterprises with a comprehensive AI stack to build customized, secure intelligence tailored to their unique business needs. Driven by advanced Small Language Models and our dynamic metamodel framework, our flagship platforms - Nace Data Intelligence and the Nace SLM Cloud - enable true end-to-end business process automation. The result is transformative ROI: professional services firms using Nace AI are currently recovering 1,000 hours per client engagement, drastically reducing overhead and accelerating delivery. The work we are doing has a meaningful impact across industries, and every hire at Nace AI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s trajectory. This is a unique opportunity to join a high conviction AI company at an early stage and directly influence its growth. If building a world-class AI team from the ground up excites you, we’d love to talk. Role Overview: As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a central role in translating cutting-edge machine learning research into scalable, production-ready solutions. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities where ML can drive product value, architect robust model-centric systems, and ensure their seamless integration into real-world applications. The role requires a strong balance between theoretical understanding and engineering execution, with a focus on building reliable, maintainable, and high-impact AI-driven features that align with Nace.AI http://Nace.AI’s strategic objectives. Key Responsibilities: - Design, build, and maintain end-to-end ML systems, including synthetic data pipelines, model training, debugging, and performance evaluation. - Fine-tune large language models (LLMs) and implement meta-learning methods to enhance model generalization and efficiency. - Improve existing Nace.AI http://Nace.AI models by incorporating advancements from recent ML research. Qualifications: - 3+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments. - Hands-on experience training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), including practical work with pre-training, instruction tuning, and alignment techniques (GRPO,RLHF/DPO/PPO). - Hands-on Experience with Deep Learning Models, especially Transformers. - Ability to translate cutting-edge research from papers into clean, production-ready code (Paper to Code). - Proven experience scaling inference infrastructure for LLMs/VLMs, including expertise in model serving frameworks like vLLM, TGI. - Proficient in Python with a strong track record of building substantial projects. - Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, design patterns). - BS degree in CS or related technical field. - Solid Experience with ML frameworks and libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow). - Self-starter comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Preferred Qualifications: - 5+ years of industry experience in machine learning engineering, with a track record of shipping LLM-based systems at scale. - MS/PhD in CS or related technical field. - Familiarity with data processing stacks such as Spark and Airflow. - Experience with multi-node GPU training. - Contributor to open-source ML projects. - Deep knowledge in Linear Programming. - Experience with advanced NLP and Multimodal post-training experience (e.g., model distillation, quantization, deployment optimization). - Experienced in inference time optimization, deep understanding of LLM serving optimizations for LLMs/VLMs. - Hands on experience with quantization techniques (AWQ, GPTQ, FP8/GGUF). [Apply for this position](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai/f7c756f4-8260-4032-8a49-2583e09b2087/application) ## For agents - [Drex API guide](https://nace.ai/drex.md): the decision model: request shape, question types, benchmarks and deployment, as markdown - [Decision endpoint](https://console.nace.ai/v1/systemone): POST with model "drex-latest", a state string and typed questions (choice, noul, score); https://console.nace.ai/v1/models lists checkpoints - [Document endpoints](https://console.nace.ai/v1/documents/{parse|split|classify|extract|ground}): POST a source (a public URL, an uploaded workspace file or a finished parse job) and poll GET https://console.nace.ai/v1/documents/jobs/{id}; the same key and credit as decisions - [Console](https://console.nace.ai): API keys, the playground, usage and billing; send `Authorization: Bearer $NACE_API_KEY` on every request - [Console docs](https://console.nace.ai/docs): quickstart, question types, the document routes, errors, limits and pricing - [Nace Document Intelligence](https://nace.ai/perception.md): the Perception series: parse, split, classify, extract and ground any file type with a location on every value - [Drex for Search](https://nace.ai/drex/search.md): Drex for Search: decision-powered retrieval for agents, Drex finds the page, cited search through the CLI, SDKs, MCP and REST, and the public benchmark ranks - [Use cases](https://nace.ai/use-cases.md): every Drex use case with its proof figures: browser use and search for developers, enterprise finance teams and professional firms - [Developers](https://nace.ai/developers.md): The execution layer for agents: Perception, Decision and Search behind one key, the Drex Max frontier, install steps, a scripted agent session and the four deployment boundaries - [Site index](https://nace.ai/llms.txt): every page on nace.ai; append `.md` to any page URL or send `Accept: text/markdown` for the markdown version