Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Otter.aiMountain View, California, United States
Posted February 17, 2026
210000 - 275000 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Otter.ai is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration, backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.
Job Description
We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead projects building and deploying cutting-edge AI technology to help people get value from meetings and conversations. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of industry experience and a strong software engineering mindset to scale and optimize ML systems.
Requirements
- Holds a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Deep, hands-on experience building and fine-tuning large language or foundation models
- Production experience in ASR, TTS, multimodal, or modern LLM/NLP systems
- Strong understanding of model failure modes and trade-offs
- Extensive experience deploying, scaling, monitoring, and operating ML systems in production
- Experience working with large-scale speech and conversational datasets
- Highly effective at cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to lead technical projects independently
- Experience with personalization, recommendation systems, or user modeling (optional)
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance