Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Providence - Rag/LLM/Ai

We’re adding a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to our Providence team. This role leads technical efforts that turn emerging AI concepts into durable, large-scale product capabilities, focusing on intelligent tools for research-intensive professional users with an emphasis on generative AI, semantic search, retrieval frameworks, and multi-step agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• 100% hands-on technical contribution
• Develop and release AI features that improve how professionals discover, evaluate, and use complex information
• Create scalable services and shared infrastructure for distributed machine learning applications
• Implement retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, and supporting components for generative AI products
• Coordinate with application, cloud, data, and security teams to meet performance, reliability, and governance requirements

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and delivering applied machine learning solutions
• Proven ability to build systems powered by large language models and AI agents
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and vector-based search
• Experience supporting model delivery through MLOps tooling and production practices
• Advanced Python programming ability
• Experience deploying cloud-native services with AWS and Kubernetes

Qualifications

• Prior work in legal technology, knowledge management, publishing, or another information-rich industry (desired)
• 12 or more years of software development experience, or at least 8 years plus a doctorate
• Degree in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or a comparable technical field

Benefits

• Medical insurance options
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time away from work
• 401(k) plan with company matching when applicable
• Performance bonus eligibility

Schedule

This opportunity follows a hybrid work model in Providence, Rhode Island.