ML Compression Engineer
The Compression Company
Software Engineering, Data Science
USD 180k-240k / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 6, 2026
The roleYou will build the compression technology at the core of The Compression Company. You'll design and train neural compression models, improve compression ratio while preserving quality and downstream utility, and make our training system fast and repeatable so we can produce SOTA codecs for new datasets with minimal manual effort. Your work will directly drive product performance and the pace at which we can ship into new customer environments. You might be a fit if- You've trained and shipped ML models end-to-end- You care about reliability, performance, and clean experimentation- You're strong in PyTorch and comfortable owning training + evaluation- You enjoy turning research work into usable systems Sample projects- Improving rate/quality performance for real customer datasets- Building automated training runs that explore model + training settings and select strong candidates- Extending our evaluation suite to reflect real user needs, not just offline metrics- Improving reproducibility and speed across the training + benchmarking loop CompensationSalary: $180k–$240kEquity: Founding equity with meaningful ownershipFull relocation & visa support