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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5)

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/873b413fb92b5e7e

Uare.ai posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA and 1 more, at $200,000–$260,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Deploy and tune Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech in Azure Government. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Uare.ai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/uare-ai)

Posted Oct 20, 2026 by Uare.ai · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026

**$200,000–$260,000** + equity San Francisco, CA +1 On-site

Deploy and tune Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech in Azure Government.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$200K–$260K Above the median

Midpoint $230K · median $190K

This job $200K to $260K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

Travel **Required, amount not stated**

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **7+ years** ML or applied AI

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 7+ years. How many do you have?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in San Francisco, CA · Los Altos, CA. Could you work in one of these?

Which of these have you used in production?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: San Francisco, CA · Los Altos, CA

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Uare.ai

Posted by Uare.ai on Oct 20, 2026

**San Francisco / Los Altos, in-person 5 days a week, occasional travel to customer sites · Reports to the CTO · $200K to $260K base + equity**

### About Uare.ai

Uare.ai is the platform for Human-First AI. General models give everyone's answer. An Individual AI is trained on one person, so it gives theirs.

It runs on our Human Life Model (HLM), which captures seven dimensions of who someone is. Each HLM belongs to its person, and their data never trains anyone else's model. Live since July 2026, the HLM is now heading into U.S. defense programs, running on Azure OpenAI inside Azure Government at IL5.

Founded by Rob LoCascio, founder and former CEO of LivePerson. Backed by $10.3M from Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures.

### About the role

You will make the HLM run on Azure OpenAI inside a Department of Defense/War Impact Level 5 (IL5) boundary, and prove it performs as well there as it does commercially.

### What you'll do

- **Serve the models.** Stand up Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech in Azure Government, and tune them for quality, latency, and cost.
- **Port the pipelines.** Move our RAG and HLM pipelines onto Azure Government services, with nothing leaving the boundary.
- **Prove it works.** Build evals for accuracy, grounding, and refusals, and report results to the customer.
- **Own provenance.** Model versions, prompts, approved images, and data lineage, documented for the ATO.
- **Bring voice.** Run Voice Capture on Azure AI Speech inside IL5.
- **Secure retrieval.** Build access control and audit logging with our full stack engineer.

### What we're looking for

- **U.S. citizenship is required.** This role supports U.S. government contracts that require it.
- **Hands-on experience deploying ML or LLM systems in a DoD IL5 environment** (Azure Government preferred).
- 7+ years in ML or applied AI, owning models that serve real traffic.
- Deep experience with Azure OpenAI or similar hosted models, RAG, vector search (such as Azure AI Search), and evals.
- Comfortable in disconnected or tightly restricted environments where you cannot pip install your way out of a problem.
- Able to pass a U.S. government background investigation. An active clearance is a plus.

### Bonus

- Speech and audio ML (ASR, voice synthesis).
- Fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI or Azure Machine Learning.
- Iron Bank / Platform One container pipelines.

### Apply with

An ML system you deployed in IL5: the models, the serving stack, and how you evaluated it. Nothing classified or CUI. Papers or repos welcome.

### How we hire

We hire for a growth mindset: outcomes over output, experiments by default, and moving the metric that matters.

**Location:** in-person, 5 days a week, across our San Francisco and Los Altos offices.

Uare.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of every background and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. U.S. citizenship is required for this role because it supports U.S. government contracts that require it.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Annual Salary

$200,000—$260,000 USD

[View posting at Uare.ai](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/uareai/jobs/4459531009)

## About Uare.ai

Marketplace for personal AI where creators turn their knowledge and voice into owned digital replicas others can interact with, powered by a proprietary Human Life Model.

Seed · 10–50 people

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