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  • Mountain View, CA
  • Full-Time
  • 17 days ago
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Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluations.

AI & Research Full-Time

Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluations: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:Lead the evaluation platform for agentic AI systems, focusing on quality, safety and performance for production machine learning models.
  • The Person:The person will design and own evaluation frameworks, build the data infrastructure behind them, partner with Research, Product and Platform teams, and mentor other engineers.
  • Requirements:The role calls for deep experience building evaluation systems for modern ML, LLM and agentic systems, with Python, AWS, Kubernetes and/or Docker, plus a Bachelor’s Degree in CS or a related field.

About the role

At ASAPP, our mission is simple: deliver the best AI-powered customer experience—faster than anyone else. To achieve that, we’re guided by principles that shape how we think, build, and execute. We value customer obsession, purposeful speed, ownership, and a relentless focus on outcomes. ASAPP’s AI Engineering team is seeking an enterprising, talented and curious machine learning engineer.
 
The AI Engineering team is responsible for working closely with the research and modeling teams to create state-of-the-art NLP models for specific tasks, and deploy them in a production setting designed to serve our customers at scale. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help build and evaluate the core intelligence behind our agentic AI systems. This role will play a key part in designing and owning evaluation frameworks that ensure quality, safety, and performance across complex agentic systems.

We're looking for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to own and grow the evaluation platform that measures quality, safety, and performance across ASAPP's agentic AI systems- the infrastructure that tells us, with confidence, whether a model or agent change is actually an improvement before it reaches customers.

This a hybrid role with 10-12 days of in-office presence per month to balance flexibility with collaboration.

Benefits include:
 
Competitive compensation with stock options
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance
401k matching
Fitness and wellness stipend
Mental well-being benefits
Professional learning and development stipend
Parental leave, including adoptive and foster parents
3 weeks paid time off (increases with tenure) along with sick leave, bereavement and jury duty
 
ASAPP is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. If you have a disability and need assistance with our employment application process, please email us at careers@asapp.com to obtain assistance. #LI-SL1 #LI-Hybrid
Published September 11, 2026
Location Mountain View, CA
Category AI & Research  
Job Type Full-Time