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Alex Rivera

Senior ML Engineer · Applied Research
🇩🇪 Berlin · remote-ok 7+ years ✅ EU
Open to new roles
Applied ML engineer with seven years shipping production LLM systems — retrieval, evaluation, and reliable tool-use. Care most about small teams where research and product live in the same repo. Left last role after the org went from three engineers to sixty and the shipping loop broke.

What I want in a company

The values that matter most to me — matched against the same taxonomy on company profiles.
🚀Ship Fast & Iterate⚙️Engineering-Driven🎧Deep Work / Low Meetings🌐Remote-Friendly🛡️Safe to Fail

What I'm looking for

Roles
🧠 ML / AI💻 Engineering
Seniority
SeniorStaff
Company size
Small (~50)Medium (~200)
Compensation
EUR 110,000 – 150,000 · equity-heavy OK

Experience

Senior ML Engineer @ Retrieval Labs Feb 2023 — Jun 2026
Berlin, DE (Remote)
  • Built the retrieval + evaluation pipeline behind a customer-support agent used by 40+ enterprise customers.
  • Cut hallucination rate from 6.4% to 0.9% on production traffic by rebuilding the eval loop around real support tickets.
  • Owned model migrations across three Claude generations and two OpenAI generations without a customer-visible regression.
  • Interviewed 40+ candidates; hired four of the five senior engineers I brought in.
ML Engineer @ Hume Systems Aug 2020 — Jan 2023
Berlin, DE
  • Second engineering hire. Shipped the first version of an on-device speech-emotion model deployed to two million monthly users.
  • Wrote the evaluation harness the whole company still uses.
  • Left when the company crossed 60 engineers and product velocity dropped by 3x.
Research Engineer @ Sennheiser Research Sep 2018 — Jul 2020
Hannover, DE
  • Speech separation and enhancement models. One patent granted, one pending.
  • Contributed to two ICASSP papers as second author.

Skills

Applied ML Expert
LLM evalretrievalfine-tuningRLHF
Systems Advanced
PythonTypeScriptRustPostgresRedis
Platforms Advanced
AWSGCPModalDockerTerraform
Leadership Advanced
hiringmentoringteam lead

Projects

Minimal open-source eval harness for LLM apps. 4.1k GitHub stars.
#Python#OSS#evals
Nightly LLM summary of Hacker News delivered by email. 900 subscribers.
#Cron#LLM#side project

Education

TU Berlin
MSc · Computer Science · 1.3 (top of cohort)
2016 — 2018
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
BSc · Telecommunications Engineering
2012 — 2016

Languages

English · Native or bilingualSpanish · Native or bilingualGerman · Professional working

Manifesto

I want to work on things that reach real users, in teams that can still fit around a single dinner table. I care about being able to explain what I did last month to a non-technical friend without embarrassment.

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