Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About TruckSmarter

Logistics is one of the single largest industries in the world. Globally, logistics is an $8-$12 trillion dollar industry and in the US alone, ~$2 trillion, representing ~10% of GDP. A single percent of improvement drives profound change to every corner of the world—from the cost of our goods, to the livelihoods of local communities, to even the impact on our environment. To reshape the industry, at TruckSmarter, our focus is first on truck drivers. Trucks move 71% of freight in America (~$800bn annually) & the trucking industry represents nearly 6% of the full-time jobs in the country. If you look around you, every item has sat on a truck at one point on its journey to you. However, despite the industry being one of the greatest levers of innovation throughout history, it is still deeply fragmented & structurally misaligned. Our mission is to fix that—and we need your help.

 

The Role

As our first Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for building machine learning models, the corresponding data pipelines and the local and production training and inference systems for our core product and operational workflows. You will work closely with designers, operations team, and other engineers driving the technical design, implementation and scale up.

 

Working model: TruckSmarter offers an in-office collaborative culture. This role is based out of our downtown San Francisco office, and requires in-office presence three days per week (typically Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).

 

What Excites You

 

Define the AI/ML roadmap for building LLM-based AI agents, as well as the traditional AI/ML models for identity verification, fraud detection, and underwriting.

 

Own the delivery of key business, product and technology initiatives across design, specification, development, testing, and launch.

 

Establish and implement processes for model training, fine-tuning, testing, and operating the Generative AI models at significant scale.

 

Investigate, prototype and deliver innovative solutions

 

Collaborate with other engineers, Product and Business Teams to identify new ways to improve our product and drive growth.

 

Establish a data-driven development culture by driving the definition, tracking, and operationalizing of feature, product, and company-level metrics.

 

What Excites Us

 

Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.

 

5+ years of experience with designing, building and scaling ML Training and real-time Inferencing systems.

 

Proficiency in Python with experience using machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, xgboost, and pytorch.

 

Prior experience using LLMs to build AI agents.

 

Excellent written and oral communication skills and the capability to drive cross-functional requirements with business, product, operations and engineering teams.

 

What Success Looks Like

 

Build AI agents to solve end-user problems as well as increase the efficiency of our internal operations.

 

Use TruckSmarter’s proprietary and other third party data to build our first machine learning models to predict the likelihood of fraud, and underwrite credit for businesses to keep our NPAs very low.

 

Establish the data pipelines for offline training and real-time inference.

 

We Offer

Health, Dental & Vision Plans

 

Competitive Pay

 

401k

 

Unlimited PTO

 

Lunch + dinner daily

 

Commuter benefits

 

We would love to have you be a part of something special, and are excited to review your application.