Founding ML Engineer
Weave, Inc.
Weave (YC W25) is building the definitive platform for understanding and improving how engineering teams work. We believe the way engineering output is measured today is fundamentally broken and that modern AI can give teams a far more accurate and actionable view of productivity, impact and collaboration. Trusted by 200+ customers such as Robinhood, Rho, PostHog and Browserbase, we’ve delivered consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth since May and are looking to accelerate our growth. As Weave’s Founding ML Engineer , your job is to build ML systems to understand and improve the work that software engineers do. You’ll be building our processes and standards as you go to make building every incremental feature and subsequent model easier. Your goal will be to delight customers with intelligence that makes their job 10x easier. We’ve raised a $4.2M seed round and are backed by Moonfire, Burst capital and Y Combinator (W25). This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor and shape how millions of engineers and leaders understand engineering work. What We’re Building Weave is rethinking engineering output from first principles. We use AI to: Understand how engineers actually work (not just what they ship) Surface meaningful insights about productivity, quality, collaboration and impact Help teams improve outcomes without vanity metrics or surveillance Our goal is not to optimize for “more output,” but for better engineering. The Team You’ll Work With You’ll work directly with: Andrew (CTO) – previously a founding engineer at Causal, MIT alum. Andrew has been in your shoes and is deeply committed to providing the mentorship, ownership and growth he had as an early engineer. Adam (CEO) – leads sales and customer discovery. Adam is a former sales executive at multiple high-growth startups and deeply embedded with customers and scaled multiple sales teams from $0-30M in ARR. This is a small, intense, highly collaborative team. You will have real ownership from day one. Must haves You are a good fit for Weave if you are a formidable engineer. This means you stop at nothing to accomplish your goal. We don’t care much about your current skills or even what you’ve done before; we care that you will be able to do anything you set your mind to. You must also be pragmatic. Weave is a startup so something is always on fire. You need to know when to let little fires burn and when to break out the extinguisher. You must have experience with shipping ML systems to production, end to end. From selecting an appropriate data set, to feature engineering, to model design, to deployment & iteration. You must be a very good engineer who’s committed to becoming a great engineer. The slope is more important than the Y-intercept. You must be empathetic. We’re building products for other people, so you need to be able to understand how other people think and why. You must care about helping other software engineering teams be great. If that’s not an exciting mission for you, it will be hard to stay motivated through the inevitable highs and lows. You must be an excellent communicator. You’ll be working on a product that’s communicating with millions of engineers and leaders, so you need to be clear. Finally you must be gritty. You should be accustomed to picking the hard option and pushing through it. This role is 5 days in office in SF Nice to haves (Please feel free to apply even if some or all of these don’t apply to you!) Our tech stack is React + TypeScript on the frontend, Go on the backend, and Python for ML. Experience with any of those three languages is a bonus. If you’ve already done lots of thinking about engineering productivity and how to improve it, that’s great and we want to hear about it! Why Join Competitive pay + early equity Health/vision/dental insurance covered Free lunch/dinners/snacks Yearly team offsite with regular team events Yearly $500 learning/development stipend Get to work in SF with one of the fastest moving teams (95%+ percentile code output) About the interview 15-minute intro call Take home assessment One-hour technical interview with our CTO, Andrew One-hour technical interview with our CTO, Andrew #J-18808-Ljbffr
$150k - $300k
...records from across the web. You will own the ML systems that turn that raw, multilingual,... ...dilution. Own the full ML research and engineering cycle, from prototype to production.... ...Work in a role with a direct path toward founding something of your own. #J-18808-Ljbffr...Suggested- ...Founding Ml Engineer Skills: Python, PyTorch, NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, Entity Resolution, Text Classification We're building the gateway to the internet for AI agents. Our APIs already power hundreds of customers — and we went from 0 to $7M ARR in our first...Suggested
$200k - $250k
Founding ML Engineer - Anthropic Backed Startup $200,000 - $250,000 + Founding Team Equity Most ML roles ask you to fine-tune someone else's idea. This one asks you to build the thing that changes how professionals work entirely. Backed by Anthropic. The problem is...SuggestedInternshipWork at office$200k - $280k
A leading voice AI startup is seeking a Founding Senior Machine Learning Engineer to fine-tune and deploy human-like voice agents, handling millions of real... ...should have real-world experience in deploying ML models and work well in a fast-paced environment. #J-188...Suggested$175k - $300k
...K cash. You will own a meaningful piece of the company. High talent density: Be a part of a great founding team in SF. Shivaal Roy (CTO) was a founding engineer at Glean ($100M+ ARR today) and managed the Assistant and Search teams, where he solved similar problems...SuggestedFull time$55 per hour
...legacy stack to inherit — you'll be setting the direction for how we do modeling, data engineering, and production ML at Wholesail for years to come. The Role ⚒️ As the founding MLE on the Risk Engineering & Capital Products team, you'll own credit risk modeling...Full timeTemporary workWork at officeLocal area- ...About the Role We're looking for founding Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) to own and improve our core action models end-to-end - the intelligence... ...migration or IT friction. This architecture creates unique ML challenges. This is a high-ownership role on our small...Full timeSleeping nights
- ...About the company We’re a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and designers solving the most... ...We’re building a generational founding team which is truly full-stack - from neural... ...researchers also considered) ~3+ years of applied ML research or development experience, or...Full time
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$175k - $300k
...mission is simple: place the best people in the right roles to drive long-term success for both clients and candidates. Founding AI/ML Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA Company Stage of Funding: Seed Stage (Raised $4.5M) Office Type: Hybrid (2-4 Days...Work at officeImmediate start2 days per week$150k - $225k
...strengthen their communities. The Role We’re looking for an Founding AI Engineer to design, build, and scale the intelligence layer that powers... ...learning techniques Experience building and scaling data or ML pipelines in production environments Curiosity about user...Full timeWork from homeFlexible hours- ...researchers, designers, growth experts, and engineers rethinking human-computer interaction... ...the beginning. About the Role As a ML engineer at Wispr, you’ll play a crucial... ...handle What are we looking for? Previous founding or startup experience Experience...Full time
$130k - $250k
...from traditional search to AI-agent-driven discovery. Founded 2025 · 1–10 people (Seed) · Industry: AI Tools The Role Engineer number one, spanning product engineering across the full stack plus applied-ML judgment to build reliable AI systems — ranking, evals, attribution...Full timeShift work- ...will analyze flight data, interpret human performance, and deliver feedback that makes pilots safer and more effective. As an AI/ML Engineer, you’ll design and deploy the machine learning systems that power everything from student training flights to commercial airline...Full timeWeekend work
- ...researchers, designers, growth experts, and engineers rethinking human-computer interaction... ...other well-known angels. About the Role As a ML engineer at Wispr, you’ll play a crucial... ...handle What are we looking for? Previous founding or startup experience Experience...
- ...Check out 1962 new Machine Learning Engineer opportunities posted on AI Chopping Block Design... .... Develop and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines encompassing data collection, labeling... ...to grow the evaluation team as the founding member, and leading the evaluation team in...Flexible hours
- ...The Role You will be Shepherd's first Machine Learning Engineer, embedded in the Fully Autonomous Underwriting (FAU) team. This is a high-ownership, high-ambiguity role. There is no existing ML platform to inherit, no established model registry to maintain. You will...
$130k - $250k
...- $250,000 What You'll Own Build custom ML models to classify prompts, predict opportunity, and prioritize... ...judgment on when to use AI and when not to Prior founding experience or was an early engineer at a Seed, Series A, or Series B company Nice-to-...Full time$125k - $200k
...major offenses by reducing digital evidence overload. The founding team includes engineers who have built national-scale government systems before, and... ...leads across backend infrastructure and applied ML. Tech stack: Python, FastAPI, LangChain, PyTorch; LLM/...Full time- ...leave a clean trail of tests and dashboards behind. Required Qualifications: Expert-level PyTorch. Proven software engineer who loves ML; comfortable writing production code across the stack. Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large language or other...Full timeContract workFlexible hoursShift work
$180k - $240k
...Founding Data Scientist The platform sees more about a shipment than anyone else in the... ...have 3-9 years of applied data science or ML experience. You've put models into production... ...data infrastructure: pipelines, feature engineering, and the messy work of making real-world...Work at office- ...We are a small, fast-growing team of engineers in San Francisco powering Fortune 100 enterprises... ...and adapt quickly ~ Prior startup or founding experience is a plus About the Role... ...Requirements ~3+ years in applied ML or research, or strong open source record...Full timeWork at officeVisa sponsorshipRelocation package
- ...Capital, and are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to help us train and deploy the models... ...with training, fine tuning, and evaluating ML models used in production systems... ...points if you: Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages...Full timeWork at officeLocal area
- ...About Handshake Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to... ...educational institutions Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from... ...data at the largest scale. The ML Opportunity at Handshake: Machine Learning...Full timeWork at officeRemote workFlexible hours
$250k
...client, a venture-backed AI Startup, is hiring a talented ML/AI Research Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. The successful candidate... ...SOC2, HIPAA or GovCloud environments, or prior startup/founding team experience is a bonus. Benefits ~Salary: Circa. $2...Permanent employment$165k - $190k
...everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used... ...Rocket Lawyer is seeking an experienced, passionate AI/ML software engineer for Rocket Copilot, our new AI assistant launched in December...Full timeWork experience placementWorldwide$200k - $230k
...healthcare with artificial intelligence. Founded by a radiologist, our AI‑driven solutions... ...while partnering deeply with clinicians, engineers, and product leaders to bring high‑value... ...practical experience 6+ years of applied ML research experience, with a track record...Full timeWork at officeFlexible hours- ...Machine Learning Engineer Location: Onsite in San Francisco Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity UniversalAGI is building... ...to hear from you. About the Role UniversalAGI is hiring an ML Engineer to help ship ML outcomes by owning the execution layer:...Work at officeFlexible hours1 day per week
- ...Machine Learning Engineer At Advex, we're working on solving the hardest problem in all... ...Scale AI, and Qualcomm. We've previously founded and sold companies and created products used... .... As an MLE you are well versed with the ML life-cycle process, collect data, label...
- ...environments. What to expect This role is for a machine learning engineer who wants to work on the models that give LeLamp its... ...for training and deploying machine learning models Integrate ML systems with robotic hardware and embedded systems Improve robot...Immediate start
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