--- title: ML Technical Lead, Agentic Interactions at Sandbar description: Sandbar is hiring for the ML Technical Lead, Agentic Interactions role in New York, NY. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/ml-technical-lead-agentic-interactions-at-sandbar-01a14ba1-9702-7258-8a98-197946d45e5c date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Sandbar as ML Technical Lead, Agentic Interactions in New York, NY. Pays $230K–$290K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/mz9k85.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Sandbar | | **Location** | New York, NY | | **Salary** | $230K/yr - $290K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 17, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** No H-1B sponsorship on record for Sandbar. - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Sandbar. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $191,000 – $236,000 a year (median $217,000). ## Description **About Sandbar** Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox. Our first product is Stream, a private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year. Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking. **About** We're looking for a tech lead to design self-aligned agentic experiences in Stream, and lead the tightly focused team building it. Stream is a self extension, where personalization, privacy, and individual control are paramount. This is a hands-on lead role for a consumer product, not a platform or research role. You will set the technical direction, build the end-user experience, and be responsible for an that agent works in the hands of general customers. You will work directly with the founders and the backend, iOS, and ML engineers building Stream.   **Responsibilities** - Lead architecture, strategy, and tradeoffs for our ML-based products - Design and improve user-facing model-based experiences, including agentic control, conversational interactions, and information retrieval. - Develop infrastructure to rapidly develop, evaluate, and deploy models - Optimize inference pipelines for latency, reliability, and concurrency - Work closely with other ML/AI engineers, infrastructure engineers, designers, and cofounders on existing and future products   **Qualifications** - 6+ years in machine learning experience - Experience shipping ML-based products is required - Experience in large-language model evaluation and post-training is required - Experience in audio / voice ML is a plus - Comfortable writing production-grade software - Passion for human-computer interaction - Experience setting technical direction and driving execution with multidisciplinary teams **FTE Benefits** - Health, vision, and dental benefits - Company-sponsored 401(k) - Unlimited PTO and sick time - Early stage equity ## Skills - Technical Direction - Machine Learning Inference - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Rlhf) - Language Model Evaluation - Information Retrieval - Concurrent Programming - Communication - Machine Learning - Writing ## Benefits - Health Insurance - Dental Insurance - Vision Insurance - Paid Time Off (Pto) - Sick Leave - 401(k) Plans - Company Events ## Related - [Data & Analytics jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Machine Learning & AI jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics/machine-learning-and-ai?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Artificial Intelligence Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics/machine-learning-and-ai/artificial-intelligence-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Machine Learning Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics/machine-learning-and-ai/artificial-intelligence-engineer/machine-learning-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150112 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66066 jobs - [Computer Hardware](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/computer-hardware?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 22574 jobs ## Related pages - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150112 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66066 jobs - [Computer Hardware](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/computer-hardware?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 22574 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)