AI/ML Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineering role at Latent AI. Princeton · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $144,250–$228,825 across the United States.
Latent AI has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Prepare real-world data for modeling, then choose between classical classifiers and fine-tuned language or vision-language models
- Tune the physical AI inference pipeline by weighing accuracy against speed and performance
- Work with teammates and customers to create solutions that can be deployed in the field
- Coach colleagues and strengthen the team's machine learning practice
What you bring
- At least three years of machine learning engineering on a small team, with production delivery of computer vision or ML systems
- Practical experience building perception or autonomous-system solutions, such as computer vision
- You have built training, serving, evaluation and monitoring infrastructure from the ground up
- Strong Python ability, hands-on use of PyTorch or scikit-learn, and a solid MLOps foundation
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits a hands-on engineer who has shipped production ML and can make practical choices about models and infrastructure. You must be a U.S. citizen. The team is based in Princeton, New Jersey, and prefers local, in-office work.
From the employer
Who we are
Latent AI delivers edge AI solutions that enable rapid deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities on any device. Founded in 2018, the company's developer platform helps government and commercial organizations implement efficient, secure AI solutions at the edge. Latent AI's tools enable developers to build and update secure, adaptive models for field or laboratory use, serving defense and commercial customers. For more information, visit latentai.com.
What we do
Latent AI is dedicated to unlocking the power of AI for real-world applications. Our deep expertise empowers organizations to seamlessly integrate AI into their operations, revolutionizing how they utilize edge devices. We understand the complexities of bringing AI to diverse devices. That's why we create solutions that simplify the process, making it accessible to a broader range of developers. This enables organizations to build better, safer AI faster. Today, we are building AI for perception and autonomy to bring physical AI to the edge.
Why this role
We're looking for a builder. Someone who has taken models from messy data to production at scale, and who has stood up ML infrastructure from scratch rather than inheriting it fully-built. What matters most is judgment: knowing the smallest, most efficient, most reliable model for the job, and understanding both ML methods deeply enough to make that call yourself. You're someone who has understands the data modality (audio, vision, speech) as much as the models to arrive at the best solution.
What you’ll do
- Turn real-world data into something a model can actually learn from, then decide what model approach fits: a classical classifier when it wins on cost and latency, a fine-tuned LLM/VLM when the tradeoff is worth it.
- Improve our physical AI inference pipeline — balancing performance, latency, and accuracy deliberately.
- Partner with team to engage with customer to build solutions that are deployable in the field.
- Mentor teammates and raise the ML bar across the company as Latent AI's ML capability matures.
Who we're looking for
- 3–5+ years of machine learning engineering experience on a small team, with a strong track record of shipping CV/ML systems to production.
- Real, hands-on experience building solutions for perception and autonomous systems (e.g. computer vision)
- Thrived in environments where the ML infrastructure wasn't already built for you: you've stood up training pipelines, serving infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, and monitoring from scratch rather than inheriting a mature platform.
- Startup or small/mid-size company experience where you owned meaningful scope and had to make pragmatic tradeoffs about what to build, what to buy, and what to defer.
- Deep fluency with the fundamentals: thoughtful feature engineering, leak-aware train/test splits, metric selection on imbalanced data (precision/recall/F1/AUC over accuracy), cross-validation, and principled hyperparameter tuning.
- Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with AI & ML frame works: (PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc)
- Solid MLOps foundation: CI/CD for ML, model versioning, experiment tracking, drift detection, and production monitoring. Bonus if you have experience with training, evaluating and serving models
- Experience designing inference systems with explicit latency and throughput targets on physical edge hardware (CPU/GPU), and independently making informed tradeoffs between model complexity, cost, and performance.
- Experience with AWS is a plus.
Location & Benefits
US Citizen requirement due to nature of our projects. We're based in Princeton, NJ . We believe in working together in person and prefer local in-office. We offer health, vision & dental benefits, a 401(k) plan.
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