Founding ML Engineer
About the role
Founding ML Engineer to own research and engineering behind Crustdata's core intelligence layer. Build and ship models for multilingual, web-scale data to make data searchable, matchable, and enriched. Not an MLOps role; end-to-end ML development from paper to production.
Responsibilities
- You'll own the ML systems that turn messy, multilingual, web-scale data into structured intelligence. Examples include: returning multilingual matching results for complex queries; resolving similar company/people records across sources; inferring org charts from raw data; extracting technologies from unstructured signals; classifying job transitions; mapping raw job titles to canonical titles and seniority across languages.
Qualifications
- 3+ years building and shipping ML models in production — NLP, information retrieval, or entity resolution
- Strong with transformer architectures — trained and fine-tuned encoder models
- Experience building and evaluating retrieval systems, classifiers, and embedding models
- Comfortable with contrastive learning, metric learning, and representation learning
- Experience using LLMs for structured extraction, classification, or data generation at scale
- Strong Python and PyTorch
- Founder mentality or desire to be a founder in the future OR was a founder earlier
Skills

About Crustdata
Real-time B2B data via simple APIs
Crustdata provides live company and people data via APIs and full dataset delivery. We make hard to get data easy to use at scale. We have developed technology that allows us to pipe in live data from over a dozen different data sources and deliver this data instantly to our customers. We serve use cases like: automatic pipeline building, pipeline prioritization, champion watching, company and people triggers for sales and marketing automation, investment deal sourcing Our goal is index all the important data on the web and deliver it to customers in an easy-to-use way.
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