Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing. The Opportunity at Altana We're looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You'll work on a continuous stream of public and proprietary trade data (shipments, customs filings, trade documents), and build the models and AI agents that turn it into real-time decisions on risk, compliance and enforcement for governments and the world's largest companies. Your Responsibilities Drive the technical direction for agentic systems. Define the architecture and roadmap for the models and agentic systems that process trade data as it arrives (shipments, customs declarations, invoices, bills of lading) and turn it into risk, classification and compliance decisions in real time. Build the pipeline from ingestion to decision. Lead the design of reliable, cost-efficient systems for ingestion, document understanding, entity resolution, inference and routing across models, at the scale of global trade. Adapt models to trade. Use analyst feedback, production outcomes and agent traces to fine-tune and post-train models (SFT, DPO, RL with domain graders) where it measurably beats prompting, and keep every model improving over time. Design the observability and feedback stack. Build the evals, tracing and feedback loops that decide what ships and catch regressions in production. Lead beyond your team. Mentor senior engineers, raise the technical bar across Engineering, and help shape how we hire and level ML talent. Shape the product and the business. Work with software engineers, data scientists, product managers and customers to generate new business ideas and turn ambiguous problems into shipped capabilities. About You BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experi
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Location: Waltham, MA (hybrid: 3 days in-office) ERGO NEXT’s mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive. We’re doing that by building the only technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance in the industry, taking on the entire value chain and transforming the customer experience. Simply put, wherever you find small businesses, you’ll find ERGO NEXT. Since 2016, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of small business customers across the United States get fast, customized and affordable coverage. We’re backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech, and we still have room to grow — that’s where you come in. We are seeking an AI Engineer with strong backend skills to design, build and scale AI driven capabilities. The role focuses on building robust AI systems, developing the surrounding LLM harness and quality frameworks, leveraging advanced GenAI techniques, and implementin
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The role focuses on building robust AI systems, developing the surrounding LLM harness and quality frameworks, leveraging advanced GenAI techniques, and implementing production monitoring for end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced environment; Integrate ML and LLM models into production systems with focus on performance, reliability and scalability; 4+ years of hands on experience integrating ML or LLM models into production; Studies have shown that some underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification
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Next Insurance
Next Insurance is a fast-growing startup based in Silicon Valley and is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a history of successful outcomes. Our mission is to transform insurance for small businesses by combining world-class technology and phenomenal customer service to offer better insurance at a lower price. Next has raised over $880 million from top tier investors and is valued at over $2 billion. Next is well-positioned to become the leader in the $140 billion small business insurance market because we offer a 100% online experience that is tailored to unique business needs and we get customers insured in minutes - something no one else does.
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