Founding ML Engineer
a16z-speedrun · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States
- $130K–$150K per year
Own the AI systems at the heart of the product, building end‑to‑end ML pipelines and cloud architecture for predictive maintenance of commercial fleets.
Compensation
Early-stage compensation: 130 ~ 150k salary, ~1.5% experience and location - we're happy to talk through the details early in the process.
Responsibilities
- Build data pipelines that move sensor data from vessel edge devices to cloud over satellite links
- Stand up cloud architecture on AWS for real‑time and batch processing
- Integrate historical maintenance records from CMMS databases
- Develop ML models for anomaly detection and failure prediction using isolation forests, autoencoders, gradient‑boosted trees, and LSTMs
- Design fleet‑wide and vessel‑specific modeling approaches