# Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Altana AI

- Company: Altana AI
- What the company does: Backed by GV.
- Company website: https://altana.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $205K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/altanaai/jobs/8033927003?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altana-ai-staff-machine-learning-engineer/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years building and shipping ML systems in production, with a proven track record of delivering product-oriented ML solutions, including recent work on LLM-powered products
- Deep expertise in PyTorch and the modern Python ML stack (Hugging Face, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas/Polars)
- Hands-on experience building production LLM applications: retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool/function calling, structured outputs, and agentic workflows
- You've shipped agentic systems in production and know their failure modes: tool use, planning, state, recovery and human-in-the-loop
- Experience post-training or adapting LLMs (SFT, DPO, RLHF/RLAIF, reward modeling) for a production use case

Tags: Machine Learning

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altana-ai-staff-machine-learning-engineer/