Head of Machine Learning
Empathy Talent
San Francisco, CA · $200k a year · Posted November 3, 2026
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We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to own one of the company’s most important technical challenges: turning weak, noisy, and highly variable physiological signals into continuous language. The team has already built prototypes capable of decoding subvocal...