Founding ML Engineer (Spectrum)

JetBrains is hiring a Founding ML Engineer for Spectrum, its startup-incubator project. The role owns the AI and ML engineering stack, shapes the research agenda, and builds systems for knowledge extraction, retrieval, and reasoning.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building the ML/LLM solution for data ingestion, knowledge extraction, retrieval, and subsequent reasoning
• Creating the datasets, metrics, and pipelines that drive measurable improvements across the system
• Architecting and improving agents for context retrieval, knowledge extraction, and data alignment, which includes prompt engineering, model selection, and inference optimization
• Establishing MLOps practices, including orchestration, observability, and experiment tracking
• Collaborating with the engineering team on system design and with JetBrains Research on the research agenda
• Defining hiring criteria, growing the ML team, and shaping the ML team culture