Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Rust, Models & Agent Systems
Loci
New York, NY · $200k a year · Posted October 30, 2026
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Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $200,000 a year. Across 69 open senior machine learning engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $185,000 to $242,000 and the median is $215,000. That is inside the middle half of those listings, 7% below the median.
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About the job
...This is a Founding Engineer role at Loci for a scrappy, versatile ML generalist who thrives on owning core systems. We’re looking for a machine learning engineer to help build an AI application that gives users control over their models, tools, and data. The work spans...