Machine Learning Engineer - AI Assistant + Autonomous AI Agents

27 Minutes ago • 5 Years + • $240,000 PA - $300,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Glean is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build the next generation of intelligent enterprise AI assistants and autonomous AI agents. This role involves working at the intersection of applied research and production engineering, focusing on LLM orchestration, low latency inference, domain adaptation, and reinforcement learning. You will design and optimize agentic architectures, lead evaluation frameworks, and contribute to technical strategy, solving complex multi-step enterprise workflows.
Must have:
  • Build frameworks for LLM-powered agents to use tools and knowledge sources effectively
  • Invent new agentic architectures and signals to improve reasoning, planning, and personalization in workplace AI assistants
  • Design and optimize reinforcement learning and fine-tuning approaches to improve the quality of agentic systems
  • Lead development of scalable evaluation, benchmarking, and optimization loops for agents in production
  • Drive technical strategy and mentor other engineers, raising the technical bar across the team
  • Write robust, maintainable, and well-tested code that powers enterprise-grade assistants and agents
  • 5+ years of industry experience in AI or Machine Learning Engineering
Good to have:
  • 2+ years as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent
  • Proven ability to design, build, and ship production-ready systems
  • Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment - being a team player and willing to take on whatever is most impactful for the company
  • A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Medical coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Generous time-off policy
  • 401k plan
  • Home office improvement stipend
  • Annual education stipend
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Vibrant company culture through regular events
  • Healthy lunches daily

Job Details

About Glean:

Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence.

Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain’s deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work.

About the Role:

Glean is looking for senior engineers who will provide expert-level individual contributions and thought leadership to help us build the next generation of intelligent enterprise AI assistants and autonomous AI agents. We are reimagining how LLMs and agents can reason, plan, and act to solve complex, multi-step enterprise workflows. You will work at the intersection of applied research and production engineering in areas such as agentic frameworks, LLM orchestration, low latency LLM inference and optimization, domain adapted and memory augmented LLMs, reinforcement learning, building evaluation frameworks for complex enterprise tasks. We work closely with our customers, deeply understand their pain points, and use the right mix of research-driven and pragmatic engineering approaches to solve them.

You will:

  • Build frameworks for LLM-powered agents to use tools and knowledge sources effectively
  • Invent new agentic architectures and signals to improve reasoning, planning, and personalization in workplace AI assistants
  • Design and optimize reinforcement learning and fine-tuning approaches to improve the quality of agentic systems
  • Lead development of scalable evaluation, benchmarking, and optimization loops for agents in production
  • Drive technical strategy and mentor other engineers, raising the technical bar across the team
  • Write robust, maintainable, and well-tested code that powers enterprise-grade assistants and agents

About you:

  • 2+ years as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of industry experience in AI or Machine Learning Engineering
  • Experience working with agentic frameworks, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, or other large systems involving machine learning
  • Proven ability to design, build, and ship production-ready systems
  • Proficiency in your ML framework of choice
  • Strong coding skills (Python, Go, Java, C++, ...)
  • Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment - being a team player and willing to take on whatever is most impactful for the company
  • A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small tasks and large features

Location:

  • This role is hybrid (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)

Compensation & Benefits:

The standard base salary range for this position is $240,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

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About The Company

We’re on a mission to make knowledge work faster and more humane. We believe that AI will fundamentally transform how people work. In the future, everyone will work in tandem with expert AI assistants who find knowledge, create and synthesize information, and execute work. These assistants will free people up to focus on the higher-level, creative aspects of their work. We’re building a system of intelligence for every company in the world. On the surface, you can think of it as Google + ChatGPT for the enterprise. Under the hood, our platform is the connective tissue between AI and knowledge. It brings all of a company’s knowledge together, understands it at a deep level, provides industry-leading search relevance over it, and connects it to generative AI agents and applications.

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