What are the responsibilities and job description for the Member of Technical Staff - (Senior) Applied ML Engineer position at Liquid AI?
Liquid AI, an MIT spin-off, is a foundation model company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Our mission is to build capable and efficient general-purpose AI systems at every scale.
Our goal at Liquid is to build the most capable AI systems to solve problems at every scale, such that users can build, access, and control their AI solutions. This is to ensure that AI will get meaningfully, reliably and efficiently integrated at all enterprises. Long term, Liquid will create and deploy frontier-AI-powered solutions that are available to everyone.
What This Role Is Not
We're not looking for a traditional solution engineer - we're building cutting-edge technology and need frontier talent to bring it to market.
What This Role Actually Is
We need someone to bridge our AI capabilities with real-world business impact. You'll be the GTM team's technical north star, operating at the intersection of customer engagement, technical architecture, and product strategy. You'll determine what's technically possible and strategically valuable for both Liquid and our customers.
Our customers look to us to propose high-value use-cases for our technology. You'll often architect solutions while simultaneously defining problems.
You Should Apply If
You're technical and love working with technical customers
You thrive in startup ambiguity and adaptability
You can synthesize information across ML, Software, Product, Strategy, and Legal to make strategic decisions
You see massive technology commercialization challenges and think:
"finally, something worth solving"
What You'll Actually Do
Navigate enterprises and collaborate with key stakeholders to scope commercial engagements solving critical customer problems
Ruthlessly evaluate potential engagements based on:
Technical feasibility and differentiation
Strategic value and replication potential
Resource intensity vs. strategic value
Architect differentiated solutions using our technology versus alternatives.
Connect solutions to measurable customer ROI through deep technical integrations aimed at their mission critical problems.
Identify verticals where our technology can repeatably deliver value.
Balance short and long-term thinking, sometimes sacrificing immediate wins for strategic value
What You'll Gain
Pioneer a first-mover product that could revolutionize the market
Own major decisions with clear line of sight to your personal impact
Develop rare innovation skills in a red-tape-free environment
Architect a 10x step-change rather than incremental improvements
Create order from chaos and turn vision into reality
If you've read this far and aren't at least slightly intimidated by this, you're either perfect for the role or completely wrong for it.
Only one way to find out.
