Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals in California

Pre-screened and vetted in California.

SM

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and scalable GPU inference

Bay Area, CA5y exp
PerplexitySaint Louis University
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CL

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and model quantization

San Francisco, California1y exp
DoorDashUCLA
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BM

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production MLOps

San Francisco, CA6y exp
Scale AISaint Louis University
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YE

Senior Python Developer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native microservices

CA, USA6y exp
GoogleUniversity of Central Missouri
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KK

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM inference and GPU infrastructure

San Francisco, CA6y exp
PerplexityStevens Institute of Technology
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RK

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk and fraud systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp
PlaidSaint Louis University
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DA

Daksh Adhar

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Junior Robotics & Reinforcement Learning Engineer specializing in dexterous manipulation

Palo Alto, CA2y exp
1X TechnologiesCarnegie Mellon University

Robotics software engineer (master’s student) who placed 3rd in the CMU VLA challenge and presented at IROS, building an LLM-powered language system (Gemini 2.5) for mobile-robot scene Q&A and language-based navigation. Hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience including ros2_control + PILZ planning for a KUKA arm, plus simulation (Gazebo) and containerized submissions with Docker.

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LC

LuYao Chen

Screened

Junior Software/ML Engineer specializing in AI systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied research

Los Angeles, CA3y exp
University of Southern CaliforniaUSC

Backend/infra-focused engineer with experience spanning Go-based MCP servers for an AI-assisted Kubernetes on-call diagnosis chatbot and a Python/Flask PagerDuty automation integration. Previously at Tesla, optimized high-volume battery test data in PostgreSQL using JSONB, partitioning, and a timestamp normalization pipeline; also built PyTorch PINN training workflows and achieved a 20x speedup via batch vectorization.

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Nishitha Thummala - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and scalable inference in San Francisco, CA

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and scalable inference

San Francisco, CA6y exp
PerplexityUniversity of Nebraska Omaha

Backend/retrieval-focused engineer with production experience at Perplexity building a large-scale real-time Q&A system using retrieval-augmented generation, emphasizing low-latency, high-quality answers through ranking, context optimization, and caching. Also has orchestration experience from both product-facing LLM pipelines and large-scale infrastructure workflows at Meta, and has partnered with non-technical stakeholders to align AI trade-offs with business goals.

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Kowshika M - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, inference optimization, and AI safety in Santa Clara, CA

Kowshika M

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, inference optimization, and AI safety

Santa Clara, CA5y exp
NVIDIAOregon State University

AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA, where they fine-tuned and deployed a financial-services chatbot and cut latency ~50% using TensorRT + NVIDIA Triton, scaling via Docker/Kubernetes. Also has consulting experience at Accenture delivering a predictive maintenance solution for a logistics network, bridging non-technical stakeholders with actionable dashboards.

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Nikhil Reddy - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU inference and LLM platforms in San Francisco, CA

Nikhil Reddy

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU inference and LLM platforms

San Francisco, CA5y exp
NVIDIASaint Louis University

Built and deployed an LLM-powered platform that turns models into scalable REST/gRPC APIs, focusing on keeping GPU-backed inference fast and stable during traffic spikes. Experienced with AWS orchestration (EKS/ECS/Step Functions), safe model rollouts, and production-grade monitoring/testing for reliable AI agents and workflows.

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KS

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

CA, USA4y exp
AnthropicCalifornia State University, Long Beach

ML/LLM engineer who built a production RAG system (GPT-4 + FAISS + FastAPI) to deliver fast, grounded answers from proprietary documents, optimizing for sub-200ms latency and high-concurrency scale. Strong MLOps/observability background: drift monitoring with Prometheus + Streamlit, automated retraining via Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, and MLflow-managed model lifecycle, plus inference cost reduction through quantization and structured pruning.

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Vinnie Yerramadha - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps in San Francisco, CA

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

San Francisco, CA6y exp
ShopifyUniversity of North Texas
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SR

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA5y exp
Scale AIUniversity of New Haven
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ZZ

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and computer vision

San Jose, CA2y exp
EZSVS USAUC Berkeley
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TR

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, recommender systems, and on-device ML

CA, USA5y exp
AppleTexas Tech University
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Prajwal Gurunath - Mid-level Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in humanoid manipulation and RL in Santa Clara, CA

Mid-level Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in humanoid manipulation and RL

Santa Clara, CA3y exp
NissanCarnegie Mellon University
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RG

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLM and vision systems

San Francisco, CA5y exp
NVIDIAArizona State University
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SR

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA5y exp
Scale AIConcordia University
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