Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer

About the Company

Confido is the AI infrastructure powering modern CPG — the platform that 200+ brands like OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana use to run everything from deductions to production planning. We're a small, in-person team in New York City, growing 5x year over year.

Responsibilities

• Build LLM systems that turn complex, inconsistent financial documents into clean, typed, validated data
• Design agentic workflows that retrieve and reason over fragmented enterprise systems with eval harnesses and guardrails
• Build and improve demand forecasting across thousands of intermittent series using classical time-series and gradient-boosted models
• Wrangle messy, real-world data including outlier detection, entity reconciliation, and ingestion across heterogeneous sources
• Own success measurement through eval datasets, benchmarks, and monitoring for probabilistic systems

Requirements

• 5+ years of applied AI / ML experience with production-grade systems
• Depth in time-series/forecasting, LLM/agentic systems, or large-scale messy-data engineering
• Experience building evaluation and monitoring frameworks to avoid leakage and train/serve skew
• Strong product sense to turn AI capability into real outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with demand forecasting (Prophet, ARIMA-family, gradient-boosted)
• Experience with agentic workflows, RAG, or retrieval systems in production
• Experience with document understanding and information extraction
• Startup experience or comfort in fast-moving environments

Benefits

• Equity ownership
• Fully paid health coverage with Aetna (100% of premiums)
• Top-tier dental and vision through Guardian
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO and regular 4-day holiday weekends
• 401(k) through Vestwell
• Paid relocation support
• Full desk setup and $200 stipend
• Catered lunches and team dinners