Senior Software Engineer - ML Services

Mountain View, CA – LandingAI – Engineering – Full time – On-site LandingAI is building the infrastructure to make the world’s documents computable. We are an AI-native company transforming unstructured and dark data into trusted, structured, auditable data that software can understand and act on. Our focus is on the hardest document understanding problems: multiple document types, complex layouts, tables, images, handwriting, and mixed modalities within and across workflows. Founded by Andrew Ng, LandingAI has brought together some of the strongest AI Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers in the industry, with deep expertise in visual AI, agentic systems, foundation models, and production ML infrastructure. We build from the ground up where it matters, move fast with the latest AI coding tools and agentic developer workflows, and invest in the compute and technical environment needed to do exceptional work. Core Strengths Agentic systems built for production: early builders of agentic AI systems applied in real world through Agentic Document Extraction (ADE), our platform for parsing, understanding, and extracting information from complex documents with traceability, control, and production-grade reliability. A data-centric mindset: rigorous, practical approach to model quality, edge cases, evaluation, and real customer data, because solving document understanding in production requires far more than strong benchmark performance. A vision-first approach to foundation models: build from the ground up where it matters, including specialized document models and agentic systems, because solving real document understanding problems requires more than stitching together generic components. This is a place for builders. If you want to work on real technical depth, move quickly, take ownership, and help define the future of document intelligence, LandingAI is the place to do it. Key Responsibilities Be a driving force for the team's agentic coding practice - establishing patterns for spec-driven development, context engineering, and multi-agent orchestration that compound team output. Design, develop, and maintain AI-powered applications and services, focusing on high availability, performance, and reliability. Work closely with Machine Learning Engineers, building AI capabilities from early R&D prototyping to scalable operation in multiple production stacks. Build ML services designed for low-latency or high-throughput, and optimized for high cost efficiency. Lead cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and other teams to align technical solutions with business needs. Drive innovation by making strategic technical decisions, setting best practices, and mentoring engineers to elevate the team’s technical bar. Improve ML development process by enhancing the internal ML platform, facilitating data sourcing, and enabling ML observability for deployed services. Required Skills Fluency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex or equivalent). Experience writing effective specs, managing repo context, and reviewing/verifying agent output. 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong backend and ML engineering background. Experience working with cloud native technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Experience with building ML systems, from early prototype, to operating at scale in production. Strong software architecture skills, with experience designing and scaling distributed systems and cloud-based applications. Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team-wide technical direction. Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical challenges into business impact. Nice to Have Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch. Experience with serving ML models and LLMs using frameworks like vllm. Experience with developer-facing products and building intuitive APIs. Salary: $190,000 - $220,000 a year Benefits Stock Awards – We want you to share in our success with equity grants. Comprehensive Healthcare – Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. Wellness Stipend – Support for your health and well-being, whether it’s fitness programs or self-care. Lifelong Learning – An education stipend to help you grow and keep learning. Benefits may vary based on your country of employment. This role is onsite at our Mountain View HQ, with the expectation to work from the office on a daily basis. As we are a global team, the position also requires flexibility to collaborate across international time zones. #J-18808-Ljbffr AI Fund