Vetted Research Assistants in New York

“ML/LLM infrastructure engineer who built and shipped a production internal evaluation + failure-analysis agent (Arthur AI / R3AI context) that orchestrated end-to-end benchmarks with deterministic lineage, regression detection, and root-cause reporting at 5,000+ benchmarks/week. Also built backend observability and data validation systems for analytics pipelines at FullStory processing ~3.4B weekly events, emphasizing schema validation, quarantine fallbacks, and idempotent operations.”

Utkarsh Srivastava

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and medical imaging

New York City, USA3y exp

“At Fileread, the candidate built and deployed an LLM-powered legal document classification and retrieval layer for an agentic extraction system that turns unstructured legal PDFs into structured tables with line-level citations. They productionized a RAG-style pipeline (ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, generation) and report 95%+ F1 across 70+ legal categories, emphasizing rigorous evaluation and close collaboration with legal domain experts for high-stakes precision.”

Hari Chandana Kasula

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Entry Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and recommender systems

New York, NY0y exp

“Built and shipped an end-to-end podcast recommendation system exposed via a Flask API and React UI, explicitly balancing relevance, diversity (MMR), and safety constraints while meeting ~200ms latency targets. Also implemented a production-style RAG/information-extraction pipeline using web retrieval, spaCy NER, and fine-tuned SpanBERT with guardrails and evaluation loops (precision/recall/F1) to tune confidence thresholds and improve reliability.”

“Robotics engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

“Applied ML to physical EV fleet systems at ST Labs, building a real-time CNN-LSTM fault prediction pipeline from streaming vehicle telemetry and addressing live data alignment issues via resampling/interpolation and buffered inference. Also developed a V2G/G2V energy transfer algorithm to automate charging/discharging for profit optimization, and made high-impact low-latency pipeline decisions at Astera Holdings using profiling, replay testing, and live A/B validation.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the end-to-end navigation stack for a mobile manipulation robot (Cone-E), integrating ZED-2i SLAM into a real-time occupancy grid with live obstacle avoidance, A* planning, and lookahead control. Strong in real-time debugging and stability improvements (goal snapping/locking, obstacle persistence, rate-limited replanning) and validates changes on hardware, supported by simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI-based testing.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built and operated a production WhatsApp assistant end-to-end using a modern RAG stack, delivering >90% automation with sub-2-second latency. Shows strong depth in retrieval quality, observability, evaluation, and incident handling, and has also applied similar AI workflow patterns to a clinical diagnostic assistant processing medical PDFs.”