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Machine Learning Engineer

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Toronto, ON, CAN
Senior level
In-Office
Toronto, ON, CAN
Senior level
Build and productionize real-time ML systems for consumer AI: serve and optimize large-scale diffusion and LLM inference, improve model performance (quantization, distillation, pruning), implement personalization, ranking, and moderation, scale GPU infrastructure, run experiments and A/B tests, and own reliability, observability, and cost-performance tradeoffs.
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About GenTube

GenTube is a consumer AI creation platform built on a simple belief: creation should be entertainment.

Last year, people created 70M+ images on GenTube. What matters more is what’s emerging now: a small but growing group opens the app with no prompt, no goal, and stays for hours. No nudges. No incentives. That behavior is the signal we’re building around.

We’re an early, opinionated team based in Toronto, backed by top consumer AI investors and operators who’ve built at global scale.

Our ambition is straightforward and hard: build the next great consumer AI creation company for a billion people.

The Role

We’re hiring a Product ML Engineer to build the intelligence layer of GenTube.

This is not a research-only role.

And not an infra-only role.

You’ll work at the intersection of models, systems, and product — shipping ML that real users feel every day. You’ll make explicit tradeoffs between speed, quality, cost, and delight — and measure them.

If you want ownership, rigor, and real-world scale, keep reading.

What You’ll DoCore ML Infrastructure
  • Build inference pipelines serving millions of generations per week.Core ML Infrastructure

  • Design real-time and streaming inference for diffusion models, LLMs, and multimodal systems.

  • Optimize latency across serving, batching, caching, routing, and model selection.

Model Performance
  • Adapt and productionize foundation models (SD, Flux, LLMs).

  • Implement quantization, distillation, pruning, and compilation.

  • Experiment with LoRAs, ControlNets, adapters for style, control, and personalization.

Intelligence Layers
  • Build ranking, recommendation, and personalization systems.

  • Implement content understanding with embeddings, similarity search, clustering, classification.

  • Build moderation and safety systems that scale without killing creativity.

Production Systems
  • Scale GPU infrastructure from thousands to millions of daily generations.

  • Profile bottlenecks and optimize utilization and cost.

  • Run A/B tests on model variants; monitor quality, drift, and p99 latency.

  • Own reliability, observability, and graceful degradation.

Relentless Experimentation
  • Ship new model variants frequently.

  • Test speed vs. quality tradeoffs using real user behavior.

  • Close the loop: user behavior → signal → model improvement.

What We’re Looking ForCore ML Infrastructure
  • Build inference pipelines serving millions of generations per week.Core ML Infrastructure

  • Design real-time and streaming inference for diffusion models, LLMs, and multimodal systems.

  • Optimize latency across serving, batching, caching, routing, and model selection.

Model Performance
  • Adapt and productionize foundation models (SD, Flux, LLMs).

  • Implement quantization, distillation, pruning, and compilation.

  • Experiment with LoRAs, ControlNets, adapters for style, control, and personalization.

Intelligence Layers
  • Build ranking, recommendation, and personalization systems.

  • Implement content understanding with embeddings, similarity search, clustering, classification.

  • Build moderation and safety systems that scale without killing creativity.

Production Systems
  • Scale GPU infrastructure from thousands to millions of daily generations.

  • Profile bottlenecks and optimize utilization and cost.

  • Run A/B tests on model variants; monitor quality, drift, and p99 latency.

  • Own reliability, observability, and graceful degradation.

Relentless Experimentation
  • Ship new model variants frequently.

  • Test speed vs. quality tradeoffs using real user behavior.

  • Close the loop: user behavior → signal → model improvement.

Why Join
  • Founders have scaled consumer products to 100M+ users and led a $150M+ AI exit.

  • Backed by top consumer AI investors and operators.
    We’re building the kind of company Canada rarely builds — consumer-first, global, culturally relevant.

  • Small team. High bar. No bureaucracy.

  • A rag-tag group of pirates in the desert.

Location: Toronto (downtown). On-site.

Comp: Competitive salary + meaningful equity.

Benefits: Health, dental, vision, unlimited PTO, creative tools & education stipend.

Taste, curiosity, and ownership matter more than pedigree.

If you want to ship ML that millions of people feel, measure what works, and push the edge of consumer AI — we want to hear from you.

Apply by sending your application to [email protected]

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