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Applied ML Research Engineer (Production-Focused)

Valkai Incorporated

Valkai Incorporated is seeking a researcher with strong engineering ability to move between model training, experimentation, and applied AI systems, turning research outcomes into production-ready solutions in real workflows.

You will own applied research projects from problem definition to production validation, train and adapt models for reasoning, retrieval, and decision-making tasks, and collaborate with AI Strategy, product, and engineering teams to ship improvements to production.

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Vacancy posted 20 hours ago
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