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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

At Falconer, we’re transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge. We’re looking for a Founding ML Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love.

As a founding engineer, you won’t just help shape our product development—you’ll have a seat at the table to define Falconer’s technical direction and culture.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying
• Research and apply best practices in terms of Knowledge Graph, embeddings, vector and graph RAG search, fine-tuning, and model optimization
• Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic
• Optimize tech stack and applications for maximum precision and speed
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices— the Falconer platform will help you!
• Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices 

Who you are:

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in developing ML data pipelines
• Experience with text embeddings, RAG systems, and similarity search
• Familiar with Entity and Relationship recognition models
• Skilled at prompt engineering
• Ability to implement backend systems in Python and/or Node.js
• You can evaluate tradeoffs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs, Graph databases)
• You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments
• You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems

Bonus points:

• You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)
• You have fine-tuned foundational models to tailor responses to specific data use cases
• You have experience with LlamaIndex and Memgraph to produce knowledge graphs

Perks and benefits:

• Generous equity package
• Competitive salary and benefits
• 401(k) retirement account
• The best equipment and tools, like a spec'd out MacBook, and dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear to help you move fast
• Flexible work arrangements with in-office work or hybrid/remote work for the right candidate
• Our current office is in San Mateo, just steps from Caltrain

Falconer was founded by the former Head of Docs at Stripe and Uber, and an AI/ML tech lead from Uber and Meta. We are venture-backed, with a phenomenal founding team and strong customer demand.

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