Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The Opportunity
Do you want to lead projects to build and deploy cutting-edge AI technology to help people get unparalleled value from meetings and conversations? Join our core AI team responsible for ML and work alongside industry-veteran scientists and engineers. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll bring your strong software engineering mindset to machine learning in order to scale and optimize our ML systems—creating and transforming innovative research into production-ready features that power Otter’s summarization and conversational intelligence products.

Your Impact

• Architect, build, and evolve large-scale SID / ASR / NLP / LLM systems that power mission-critical product experiences including summarization, chat, and speech understanding across millions of conversations.
• Lead the design and implementation of training, fine-tuning, post-training, and inference strategies for large language and speech models using PyTorch and/or JAX, making principled trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
• Design and improve model architectures, loss functions, decoding strategies, and training techniques for speech and language models, informed by both research and pr