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Senior/Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Mimica Automation - Remote - Remote - posted 2026-10-22

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Mimica is an AI-powered process intelligence platform that automatically analyzes enterprise work and generates AI agents to execute it. The company has raised $26M in Series B funding and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Paladin Capital, serving Fortune 500 companies. You'll join the Data Intelligence team as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, owning key parts of ML pipelines end-to-end. Your focus will be on making pipelines more accurate, cost-efficient, and trustworthy through applied LLM work, evaluations, and production improvements. Day-to-day responsibilities include: - Owning, debugging, and improving production pipelines for accuracy and efficiency - Designing and building LLM evaluation systems, including datasets, metrics, and benchmarks - Running rigorous experiments on prompts, model choice, pipeline design, and inputs - Driving LLM efficiency improvements by comparing models and replacing LLM calls with smaller, purpose-built models - Expanding anonymization pipelines and evaluating existing models - Collaborating with Python and quality engineers to move experiments into production - Documenting findings in experiment reports and design docs The team is remote-first and globally distributed across 16+ countries, with a culture emphasizing high ownership, bottom-up thinking, and transparent communication. You'll work in small, project-based teams with flexibility in problem selection and full lifecycle ownership. REQUIREMENTS: - Solid machine learning/data science background with understanding of experimental design, data splits, metrics, bias, and statistical significance - Hands-on experience applying LLMs in production or near-production settings, especially evaluating them (building eval sets, LLM judges, benchmarks, iterating on prompts and pipelines) - Comfortable exploring messy data, troubleshooting issues, and transforming insights into measurable improvements - Strong Python skills and good engineering practices; ability to write clear, tested code suitable for production - Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems: framing questions, choosing approaches, and setting acceptance criteria - Proficiency using AI coding tools while maintaining accountability for output - Clear communication in spoken and written English, including explaining technical trade-offs to diverse audiences BONUS/NICE TO HAVE: - Experience with classical ML or deep learning model development - Experience with image/OCR pipelines or face-related anonymization - Experience shipping end-to-end ML features in startup or scale-up environments

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