Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent (contract)

Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. They are seeking a highly motivated and passionate Machine Learning Engineer to join their core AI team, responsible for the research and development of AI avatar chat systems.

Responsibilities:

• Research and implement state-of-the-art AI solutions
• Architect and deliver scalable agentic systems
• Translate research into production
• Partner with Product on what actually ships
• Design and execute rigorous evaluation frameworks
• Own AI quality, safety, and cost
• Fine-tune and train models when off-the-shelf falls short
• Stay at the frontier

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building agentic systems with Large Language Models (LLMs)
• 3+ years building scalable, production-grade backend systems in Python (Go or JavaScript also welcome)
• 5+ years of experience in machine learning and statistics, with a track record of shipping products that leverage LLMs, ML, CV, or NLP models
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated experience collaborating directly with product teams to design and elevate AI-driven features
• A proactive approach to learning — you follow emerging AI research and bring what matters back to the team
• Experience with knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation, or multi-agent coordination frameworks
• Background in 3D animation, motion synthesis, or avatar/character AI systems
• Familiarity with model optimization for real-time or near-real-time inference (ONNX, TensorRT, quantization)
• Contributions to the ML community — publications, open-source, or conference talks