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title: 'Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5) at Uare.ai'
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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5) at Uare.ai

- **Company:** Uare.ai
- **Location:** San Francisco OR Los Altos, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$260k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/uareai/jobs/4459531009

## Job description

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

## About Uare.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Uare.ai develops Individual AI companions that capture a person’s voice, memories, and way of thinking, creating private, self-owned digital twins that evolve alongside the user.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Los Altos, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Robert LoCascio

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence (Individual AI / Personal AI)
- **Target customers**: Creators, prosumers, professionals, enterprises, and individuals (B2C and B2B).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build Individual AI that reflects your voice, values, and experiences – while keeping you in control.” [uare.ai](https://www.uare.ai/career)

## Products & Services
- **Uare.ai Individual AI Platform**: A SaaS platform that creates a high-fidelity digital twin using the proprietary Human Life Model (HLM). It captures voice, memories, knowledge, and decision-making patterns, training exclusively on the user’s own data. The AI is containerized, private, and never used to train public models. Capabilities include auto-generating AI content (AIGC), chat/voice conversations, mentorship, and legacy preservation. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251111768223/en/Uare.ai-Raises-%2410.3M-to-Build-the-Future-of-Individual-Artificial-Intelligence)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $10.3M (Seed round, announced November 12, 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mayfield (lead), Boldstart Ventures (lead), plus additional strategic investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Raised $10.3M seed funding in late 2025 to accelerate product development and hiring. [uare.ai/blog](https://www.uare.ai/blog/we-just-raised-10-3m-to-build-the-future-of-individual-ai)
  - Employee count of 21 as of March 31, 2026 (up from founding in 2024). [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/uareai/__xrEAIEh234afR3blmNWb-WAm9CoK3B6MGUmlJFG0oMg)
  - Platform launched in Winter 2025 and is already being used by early adopters (creators monetizing AIGC, consumers interacting with AIs).
  - Active hiring across engineering, partnerships, and creator roles (visible on careers page).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human Life Model (HLM)**: A proprietary framework that encodes stories, values, voice, and decision-making patterns – creating AI that reasons and responds like the individual, not a generic model.
- **Privacy-first design**: User data is encrypted, isolated, penetration-tested, and never used to train public AI models. Users can delete their data anytime. [uare.ai](https://www.uare.ai/)
- **Identity verification**: All “verified Professionals” are real, identity-verified people, building trust in the ecosystem.
- **Containerized AI**: Each Individual AI is a private, self-owned model that evolves with the user, differentiating from AGI-focused competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand platform capabilities for creators, pros, and enterprises.
- Scale hiring across engineering (AI, frontend, DevOps), partnerships, and creator success.
- Grow the flywheel of prosumer/consumer interaction and monetization.
- Maintain data ownership and privacy as core differentiators against public-model AI providers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “Authentic, not Artificial” – the company values individual ownership, privacy, and real human connection. Core values include “be your best self” and “let yourself speak.” [uare.ai/career](https://www.uare.ai/career)
- **Work model**: Not explicitly stated as remote/hybrid, but the office is in Los Altos, CA. Given the distributed nature of the team (ex-LivePerson, ex-Apple, ex-Google, ex-Meta, etc.), a flexible arrangement is likely.
- **Benefits**: 
  - Health, dental, vision insurance with family coverage options.
  - Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
  - Free Calm app access, mental health support, and 24/7 counseling.
  - Caregiving support (Cariloop), childcare/eldercare coordination, adoption assistance.
  - Professional development courses, leadership training, Community Online Academy.
  - Commuter benefits, Basic Life Insurance, Short/Long-term Disability.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on scalable infrastructure and data protection. Engineers work on building a platform that gives users control over their AI and intellectual property. [uare.ai/career](https://www.uare.ai/career)

## Sources
1. [uare.ai](https://www.uare.ai/)
2. [uare.ai/career](https://www.uare.ai/career)
3. [uare.ai/blog](https://www.uare.ai/blog/we-just-raised-10-3m-to-build-the-future-of-individual-ai)
4. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251111768223/en/Uare.ai-Raises-%2410.3M-to-Build-the-Future-of-Individual-Artificial-Intelligence)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/uareai/__xrEAIEh234afR3blmNWb-WAm9CoK3B6MGUmlJFG0oMg)

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