About the Role
We are building a first-of-its-kind consumer membership ecosystem from the ground up, with AI as the core component. As a Senior ML/AI Engineer, you will be instrumental in building the AI operational backbone and shipping AI-native features for over 100 million users. This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on building infrastructure, shipping features, and developing evaluation systems.
Responsibilities
- Ship AI-native features end-to-end, including recommendation, personalization, ranking, moderation, and agents, working directly within product squads.
- Build and extend the AI operational backbone, encompassing model serving, inference infrastructure, retrieval, and prompt/agent tooling.
- Own end-to-end evaluations for shipped features, both offline and online, to prevent quality regressions.
- Make pragmatic decisions regarding foundation models, fine-tuning, RAG, and agent frameworks, maintaining a lean stack and tight feedback loops.
- Operate AI-natively by utilizing tokens, coding agents, and shipping features efficiently.
Requirements
- Shipped ML or AI systems in production for products used by millions.
- Experience being on-call for a model.
- Deeply integrated modern AI tooling into your workflow.
- Experience building or significantly contributing to eval systems that have caught real regressions.
- Experience building from zero with a nimble team.
- Experience with big-tech exposure to understand scalability issues.
- Thrive in ambiguity and prefer shipping over process.
- Prefer prototyping and demonstrating over design reviews.
Skills
- Recommendation systems
- Personalization
- Ranking
- Moderation
- Agents
- Model serving
- Inference infrastructure
- Retrieval
- Prompt tooling
- Agent tooling
- Offline evaluations
- Online evaluations
- Foundation models
- Fine-tuning
- RAG
- Agent frameworks
- Coding agents
Location
- Bay Area (San Francisco/Peninsula)
- NYC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
About the Company
- Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world.
- Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube.
- With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives.
- At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change.
- Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
