Founding Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$350–400K/yrSeen 1 day agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Taiga is hiring its first machine learning engineer to own the models and agents that handle billing work, along with the supporting evaluations and data pipelines. The engineer will decide how these systems are built. The role seeks 7+ years of experience building ML systems and shipped LLM or agent systems used by real users; healthcare experience is a plus.
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Full job description
You will be our first ML hire. You will own the models and agents that do the billing work, plus the evals and data pipelines behind them, and you will decide how we build all of it. You have 7+ years building ML systems and have shipped LLM or agent systems that real users depend on. You know how to design evals, when to fine-tune, and how to keep cost and latency in check in production. Healthcare experience is a plus. On-site in San Francisco. $350K to $400K base, 1% to 2% equity. US-based candidates with existing US work authorization only; we do not sponsor visas. Taiga is building autonomous medical billing. We are a small team in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator. Learn more at https://taigabilling.com/careers
How this job compares
Set against the 6,113 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$350–400K/yr
- California median$176–261K/yr1,366 salary ranges
- US median$150–245K/yr4,872 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $375K, is 70% above the California median midpoint ($220K) — in the top quarter of Machine Learning Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,842 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs in California and 6,113 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Machine Learning Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,895 postings).
- Education
- 2,300 of the 6,113 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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