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Machine Learning Engineer

Voltai · Palo Alto · United States

Full timeData Scientist

Posted: 9/18/2025 · Last checked: 10/12/2026

Job description

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About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

What we're Looking For

  • Strong AI/ML engineering skills from top tier CS, EECS, Math and Physics programs.

  • Proven track record of delivering AI/ML projects from concept to production.

  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning and deploying large language models (LLMs) in production environments.

  • Prior experience working with multi-modal models (e.g., combining text, image, or audio inputs).

Bonus Points

  • Background in competitive programming.

  • Contributions to open-source initiatives.

  • Notable awards or publications in leading journals/conferences.

  • Experience thriving in a fast-paced, hyper-growth startup environment.

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