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Yara AI

Applied ML Engineer

Full Time · In Office · New York, New York (USA)

$175,000–$350,000 · Posted Sep 10, 2026

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A Applied ML Engineer role at Yara, for someone who thrives on building production LLM systems for real customers in a fast-paced, in-person environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build production LLM systems for real customers
  • Develop agent orchestration, tool use, and retrieval mechanisms
  • Implement evaluation strategies for AI products
  • Engineer model-side solutions for trustworthiness in finance and enterprise
  • Work on teams defining the current AI wave

Requirements

  • Ship LLM-powered products that real people used
  • Own the model side of LLM systems
  • Understand the difference between a wrapper and a system
  • Possess strong engineering fundamentals
  • 3 to 10 years in software or ML engineering
  • At least two years with production LLM systems

Qualifications

  • Strong fundamentals in TypeScript or Go
  • Experience with agent systems in production
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning, distillation, or inference optimization
  • Links to agentic projects built

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