Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform & Agentic Apps

Robinhood

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Salary
$255,000–$300,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $211k
This role $278k
$160k most similar roles pay here $315k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $176,000–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $278k versus about $211k for comparable roles.

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About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial technology company offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, aimed at democratizing access to financial markets. Industry: Financial Technology & Investment App

Robinhood currently has 42 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 39 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform & Agentic Apps

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform & Agentic Apps joins the AI Platform & Agentic Apps team to build a robust agent platform for internal tools and customer-facing interactions. You will design and build the core agent harness involving orchestration, tool integrations, context management, and memory systems. Key responsibilities include developing trajectory-level evaluation systems to measure reasoning, building action guardrails like permission models and sandboxing, and creating SDKs for other teams to adopt. The role requires expertise in Python, distributed systems, and LLM-powered production environments. You will solve the challenge of making agentic AI trustworthy within a regulated financial environment by implementing tool-call scoring, simulation environments, and automated CI regression gates. This position focuses on building scalable infrastructure that enables agents to perform complex actions while ensuring safety through rigorous evaluation methodologies and robust technical guardrails.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?

Median $241375 from 180 postings across 30 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build the core agent harness including orchestration, tool integrations, context management, and memory systems.
  • Develop trajectory-level evaluation systems to measure agent reasoning, planning, and multi-step task completion.
  • Architect action guardrails such as permission models, approval gates, sandboxing, and budget limits as platform primitives.
  • Build internal tools like SDKs and CI regression gates to enable other teams to adopt safety and evaluation features.
  • Deliver end-to-end agentic applications that perform real actions for employees and customers in production environments.
  • Establish technical standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of junior engineers.
  • Define the criteria and data-driven logic for determining when an AI agent is safe to ship.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or ML-focused software engineer.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Strong Python and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Track record of shipping LLM-powered systems to production at scale.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic systems including tool use, orchestration, context management, and multi-step planning.
  • Deep expertise in evaluating agents through trajectory-level evals, tool-call scoring, and simulation environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise designing action-level guardrails such as permission models, approval gates, and sandboxing.
  • Proven ability to build platforms that other engineering teams adopt.

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