Vetted Machine Learning Engineers in California

Pre-screened and vetted in California.

SM

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, federated learning, and fraud detection

CA, USA5y exp
AppleUSC
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VK

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in recommender systems and LLM/RAG pipelines

CA, USA5y exp
NetflixUniversity of North Texas
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SC

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud prevention and LLM systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp
ShopifyUniversity of Texas at Arlington
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HL

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

San Francisco, CA4y exp
Scale AILong Island University Brooklyn
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LT

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and MLOps on AWS

CA, USA5y exp
NVIDIASaint Louis University
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JJ

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation, RAG, and GPU-accelerated inference

CA, USA5y exp
Scale AIMissouri State University
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SG

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in multimodal and generative AI at scale

San Francisco, CA6y exp
MetaWilmington University
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DS

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and cloud optimization

Cupertino, CA1y exp
AdvantisUC San Diego
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SV

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommendation, retrieval, and MLOps

San Francisco, CA5y exp
MetaConcordia University
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SC

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and inference optimization

Bay Area, CA5y exp
NVIDIAWebster University
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HA

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in AWS edge AI and generative AI apps

San Francisco Bay Area, California6y exp
Amazon
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SN

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and enterprise conversational AI

Sunnyvale, CA10y exp
WalmartUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

ML/GenAI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML, RAG systems, and LLM routing. They pair solid platform engineering skills with measurable business impact, including 15% churn reduction, 35% support ticket deflection, 45% GenAI cost savings, and a shared inference library that cut deployment time from weeks to days.

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Matthew Frank - Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM-powered analytics in Santa Barbara, CA

Matthew Frank

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM-powered analytics

Santa Barbara, CA7y exp
Live Data TechnologiesUC Berkeley

Machine learning engineer and startup veteran building InfraSketch (infrasketch.net), a full-stack system-design/diagramming product where users describe systems in plain English and an LLM agent generates and iterates on infrastructure graphs and exports design docs. Owns the entire stack (React/TS + FastAPI/Node, DynamoDB/Postgres, AWS serverless) and focuses on LLM consistency, modular agent architecture, and production-style CI/CD and reliability patterns.

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PK

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and real-time ML systems

California, USA4y exp
UberUniversity of North Texas

ML/GenAI engineer with hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered support systems at Uber, including real-time feedback analysis, ticket summarization, and retrieval-grounded knowledge systems. Stands out for combining fine-tuning, RAG, safety evaluation, and production optimization to drive measurable support outcomes like faster handling times, better resolution rates, and lower latency/cost.

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ZS

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML for utility operations

California, USA2y exp
Sun-Net Inc.Stanford University
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HO

Mid-level Machine Learning & Data Engineer specializing in MLOps and cloud data platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp
Blue River TechnologyUC Berkeley
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AP

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in optimization, RL, and graph neural networks

San Jose, CA4y exp
Cadence Design SystemsColumbia University
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Vismay Patel - Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and MLOps in Berkeley, CA

Vismay Patel

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Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and MLOps

Berkeley, CA7y exp
Kaiser PermanenteSan Francisco State University

ML/GenAI practitioner with healthcare domain depth who built and deployed a production cervical-cancer EMR classification system using a hybrid rules + medical BERT approach, optimized for high recall under severe class imbalance and PHI constraints. Experienced running end-to-end production ML/LLM pipelines with Apache Airflow (validation, promotion/rollback, monitoring, retraining) and partnering closely with clinicians to calibrate thresholds and implement human-in-the-loop review.

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NV

Junior Data & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and NLP

Los Angeles, United States1y exp
WorkUpUSC

ML/LLM practitioner with production experience building a healthcare review sentiment pipeline (RateMDs) using Hugging Face Transformers plus a LangChain+FAISS RAG layer for interactive querying. Also led orchestration-driven optimization of Nike’s Fusion ETL pipeline, improving runtime efficiency by 20%, and has experience translating ML outputs into Tableau dashboards for non-technical healthcare stakeholders (e.g., readmission risk).

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ZI

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and computer vision

San Diego, CA10y exp
SOTER AIUC San Diego

Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.

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Shanmukha Koganti - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision in Bay Area, CA

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision

Bay Area, CA6y exp
ShopifyUniversity of North Texas

ML/AI engineer with production experience at Shopify and Intel, building a deep learning product ranking system that lifted add-to-cart ~14% and serving real-time similarity search via FAISS+Redis under <20ms latency at massive scale. Also deployed computer vision models to 100+ retail edge locations using Docker/Ansible/k3s with zero-downtime rollouts, and applies strong MLOps practices (A/B testing, canary/shadow, observability) plus performance optimization (OpenVINO, INT8).

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Sai Dinesh Pusapati - Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows in San Francisco, CA

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp
Scale AIBelhaven University

LLM/AI engineer with production experience building a retrieval-based document intelligence system that extracts information from PDFs/emails, backed by Python + Spark pipelines. Focused on reliability and cost/latency optimization (caching, batch processing) and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow (sensors, retries, alerts). Also partnered with business stakeholders to deliver customer feedback classification/summarization for faster sentiment insights.

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SR

Sriraksha Rao

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and distributed backend platforms

San Diego, CA3y exp
Relevance LabsUC San Diego

Built end-to-end AI features across both fitness and insurance domains, including a full-stack personalized workout recommendation system and a production RAG-based insurance QA assistant at Relevance Labs. Stands out for combining backend/distributed systems skills with practical LLM architecture, evaluation, and risk-aware human-in-the-loop design; notably reduced unnecessary LLM calls by 40% while improving latency and answer reliability.

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BM

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and recommendation systems

California, USA3y exp
PayPalFlorida Atlantic University

ML engineer with production experience at PayPal and Flipkart, owning high-scale systems across fraud detection, recommendations, and LLM tooling. Stands out for combining strong modeling judgment with practical platform engineering, delivering measurable impact like 22% fewer fraud false positives, 18% CTR lift, 40% less LLM manual review, and 30% faster redeployments.

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