Machine Learning Engineer, Coach Platform (San Francisco)

Machine Learning Engineer, Coach Platform

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Machine Learning Engineer, Coach Platform

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Lets face it: if youre going to build the future of human transformation, you deserve more than a paycheck.
You deserve a personal BetterUp Coach, the most curious teammates on the planet, and a mission that pulls you out of bed every morning. At BetterUp, we pair world-class coaching with Generative AI to help millions live with clarity and purpose. Ready to engineer the models that make that magic feel personal?
What Youll Do

• Prototype, fine-tune, and evaluate LLM-powered featuresfrom conversational insights to practice-moment nudgesusing Python and Jupyter notebooks.
• Own the production lifecycle: data prep, experiment design, offline/online evaluation, and weekly pushes to prod alongside a tight squad of ML/Backend/Full Stack Engineers.
• Collaborate daily with Product, Coaching Science, and Learning Design to turn behavior-change research into delightful user moments.
• Contribute to technical design by shaping model architectures, retrieval strategies, and safety guardswhile staying hands-on in code.
• Measure what matters: define success metrics, implement A/B tests, and iterate quickly on real coach feedback.
• Ship end-to-end improvements to products like FocusFrame, our AI copilot that helps coaches deliver higher-impact sessions in real time.
  

What Youll Bring
Core

• 35 years building and shipping ML systems in production, with at least 612 months hands-on with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or RAG pipelines.
• Fluency in Python for AI development and comfort working in Jupyter/IPython.
• Solid understanding of modern ML tooling (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX) and containerized/cloud deployment basics.
• Clear, approachable communication with both technical peers and non-technical partners.
• Bias toward action, curiosity, and comfort navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment.
  

Bonus (nice-to-have, Not Required)

• Prior experience in coaching, learning-science, ed-tech, or behavior-change domains.
• Exposure to RLHF, preference tuning, or multimodal models.
  

Not sure you hit every bullet? We value growth mindsetsplease apply anyway.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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