Senior ML Engineer - AI Platform

About the role

StockStory, now part of CNBC under VERSANT, is building the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors. As a Senior ML Engineer you will work on an existing AI product with real user impact and greenfield projects, spanning LLMs and ML, large-scale data systems, financial reasoning and research tooling. The team is small and growing, with high ownership and direct access to experienced market professionals.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production ML and AI systems, LLM workflows and supporting infrastructure used at scale
• Own end-to-end delivery of AI features, from data pipelines and training workflows to inference, evaluation and monitoring
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards, and mentor peers
• Solve complex technical problems with strong business impact
• Take part in code reviews and incident retrospectives
• Identify and mitigate risks in AI systems, including performance regressions, bias and operational issues
• Use and improve model lifecycle management, monitoring and evaluation frameworks

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience focused on machine learning or AI systems
• Experience building and operating production ML systems
• Genuine interest in investing, public markets and fundamental business analysis

Required skills

• Neural networks (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers) and classical and modern NLP techniques
• Training pipelines with TensorFlow or PyTorch; human-in-the-loop workflows
• LLMs, ranking or recommendation systems, search or applied NLP
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript or Java