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Find California-based ML engineers laid off in 2026 from companies that publicly attributed cuts to AI, with prior experience shipping production LLM features.
49 results across 49 people
1
Tran Le8y exp
MTS @ Fireworks AI | Ex-Meta ML | LLM Post-training/Fine-tune Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
EnglishVietnameseLarge Language Models (LLM)Machine Learning+36
2
Zhihao Ouyang7y exp
Agentic Multimodal LLM & Post Training
San Mateo, California, United States
Chinese (Simplified) (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)DPOSFT+18
3
Collin Bell18y exp
Safety @ OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Chinese (Limited working proficiency)Portuguese (Full professional proficiency)Data Science+45
4
Tai Vu7y exp
Researcher @ OpenAI | Prev @ Meta, Stanford AI Lab | IMO Medalist
San Francisco Bay Area
English (Full professional proficiency)Vietnamese (Native or bilingual proficiency)
5
Rahul Mayuranath6y exp
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United Statesnew role
PythonC++Machine LearningAlgorithms+15
6
Ankit Khedia11y exp
GenAI@Deccan | Angel Investor | Ex-Meta, Google, Amazon
Mountain View, California, United Statesnew role
English (Professional working proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)CC+++30
7
Aakash Mishra8y exp
Research @ Epsilon Health, Ex-Meta, MS @ Stanford, AB @ Harvard
Menlo Park, California, United Statesnew role
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Spanish (Limited working proficiency)Sentiment Analysis+23
8
Reza Mohammadi Ghazi16y exp
Principal Applied Scientist @ Microsoft | ex-Meta | ex-MIT | ex-UC Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Areanew role
ArabicEnglish (Native or bilingual proficiency)Persian (Native or bilingual proficiency)Machine Learning+35
9
Omar Al-Ejel8y exp
Senior ML Engineer @ Waymo
San Francisco, California, United Statesnew role
Spanish (Limited working proficiency)English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Arabic (Limited working proficiency)C+++16
10
Rishu Agrawal11y exp
Staff AI & Robotics Engineer @ Tesla Optimus
Palo Alto, California, United States
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)German (Elementary proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Nepali (Native or bilingual proficiency)+21
11
Marcus Chen11y exp
exMeta | AI engineer | Quant
San Francisco Bay Areanew role
EnglishChinesePythonQuantitative Research+14
12
Lifan Shen6y exp
Member of Technical Staff @ Hark
San Francisco Bay Area
JavaAndroidAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development+4
13
Qi C.6y exp
Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Newark, California, United States
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)Korean (Limited working proficiency)Spanish (Elementary proficiency)+49
14
Bing Wang, Ph.D.10y exp
10+ years in AI/ML
San Francisco Bay Area
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Professional working proficiency)Statistical InferenceLarge Language Models (LLM)+40
15
Franklin Yao7y exp
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta | Experienced with Large Language Models
Fremont, California, United States
OpenCVResearchTerraformJenkins+45
16
Gregory Kennedy27y exp
Senior AI & Machine Learning (ML) Engineer | Harness Engineering | LLM Fine-tuning | AI Research & Development | AI Education | FMR Silicon Valley Engineer | Award-Winning Filmmaker
Los Angeles, California, United States· 3y at co.
German (Limited working proficiency)Lead AI Systems ArchitectCustom Open-Source LLMs and SLMsLLM Fine-Tuning+11
17
Ziying Liu15y exp
Machine Learning Engineer (Ads delivery, RecSys, LLM)
San Carlos, California, United States
English (Full professional proficiency)Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)Machine LearningStatistics+27
18
Manohar Angani25y exp
Senior Engineering Manager | AI/ML Systems | LLM Products | MLOps & ML Platforms | Shipping Production AI at Scale
San Ramon, California, United States
Software DevelopmentPerlJavaAgile Methodologies+16
19
Arnav Kartikeya4y exp
Research Engineer @ Character AI | OSS LLM Post-Training
San Francisco Bay Areanew role
Distributed LearningGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs)Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)Computer Vision+8
20
Yuan Yao5y exp
Experienced engineer in LLM and machine learning application
San Francisco Bay Area
Large Language Models (LLM)DatabricksJavaPyTorch+15
21
Ruijie Jiang, Ph.D.7y exp
Senior MLE at LinkedIn | ex-Apple｜Multimodal Alignment & LLM for Ranking
San Francisco Bay Area
English (Professional working proficiency)Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)Decision TreesNeural Networks+48
22
Irem Ergun8y exp
LLM Researcher | Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Cohere
Riverside, California, United States
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Spanish (Limited working proficiency)Turkish (Native or bilingual proficiency)Consultancy Services+19
23
Min Ni5y exp
Staff Machine Learning Engineer | AI Platform | LLM Systems | ML Infrastructure | Kubernetes
San Jose, California, United States· 3y at co.
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)Core MLAI PlatformInfrastructure+17
24
Andre Williams7y exp
Sr ML Engineer @ PayPal | LLM Evals | Ex-Apple
San Francisco Bay Areanew role
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)German (Limited working proficiency)Adversarial Testing / Red TeamingFine Tuning+71
25
Gregory Kabakian3y exp
FDE @ Cresta | AI / ML Engineer | LLM Systems, MLOps, Production ML Pipelines | AWS
San Jose, California, United Statesnew role
French (Limited working proficiency)Armenian (Native or bilingual proficiency)Arabic (Limited working proficiency)Snowflake+26
Haoyu Fu7y exp
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
San Carlos, California, United States
ChineseEnglishSignal ProcessingC+3
Esteban Arcaute19y exp
Distinguished Engineer, Responsible AI and Governance at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
French (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Spanish (Native or bilingual proficiency)Statistical Modeling+13
XJ
Xiaodong J.7y exp
AI Research & Engineering at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)Machine LearningNatural Language Processing+18
Sana Lakdawala8y exp
Research Scientist @ Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
EnglishHindiFrenchData Analysis+18
Haoyang Yuan10y exp
Engineering Manager, Machine Learning
Mountain View, California, United States
Software Development
XD
Xiaocong D.11y exp
Machine Learning Engineer@Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United Statesnew role
Machine LearningAlgorithmsPythonData Structures+16
ZJ
Zhetian Jin5y exp
Senior MLE
San Jose, California, United States
ScalaGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)ProgrammingData Analysis+16
Luke Zhuo4y exp
Research Scientist @ Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Agentic AI DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)AlignmentLarge Language Models (LLM)+18
Aryan Pandhi4y exp
Senior MLE @Meta
San Francisco Bay Area
English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Professional working proficiency)Machine LearningAlgorithms+18
Shan Li8y exp
AI Researcher @ Meta Applied AI
San Jose, California, United Statesnew role
English (Full professional proficiency)Fine TuningAgentic AI DevelopmentLLM post-training+17
Julia Wang8y exp
Machine Learning Engineer specializing in RecSys and Ranking
Palo Alto, California, United Statesnew role
Software InfrastructureData EngineeringFeature EngineeringEngineering+21
Shishir Kumar Prasad17y exp
Director of Machine Learning at Instacart | LLM-native Catalog Intelligence, Search & Recommendations
San Ramon, California, United States
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)SpringiBatis+38
Xuyang Fang8y exp
LLM post training & inference @moveworks @Apple @CMU MSCS @PKU CS
Cupertino, California, United Statesnew role
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Native or bilingual proficiency)GenAI search搜索算法+31
Juan Carlo Rebanal9y exp
Founder & Creative Director at Playgarden Games LLC
Pacifica, California, United Statesnew role
Game DesignProgrammingMusic CompositionArt Direction+16
RR
Rohith Ravindranath5y exp
FDE @ Snorkel AI | Building RL Environments | LLM Evals | Healthcare
San Francisco, California, United States
Farheen Akhter9y exp
AI Engineer | GenAI, RAG & LLM Applications | Databricks, MLflow, Vector DBs | Full Stack Engineer | Building Production AI Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
PySparkForecasting ModelsPredictive AnalyticsPredictive Modeling+16
Ethan Kou5y exp
EECS @ UC Berkeley | AI/ML Research at BAIR | LLM Inference @ NVIDIA
Palo Alto, California, United States
Faizan Khan8y exp
Senior AI Solutions / Forward Deployed Engineer @SnorkelAI GenAI • LLM Systems • RAG • Agentic AI • Customer-Facing Deployments
San Francisco Bay Area
Natural Language ProcessingLarge Language Models (LLM)Generative AIPython+53
Nemil Panchamia3y exp
ML Engineer II @ SyntaxData | Python | SQL | LLM | MLOps | AWS | R | C++ | Ex 6sense | MSc in Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco Bay Areanew role
English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Full professional proficiency)Gujarati (Full professional proficiency)Marathi (Limited working proficiency)+45
YuDing Joseph Sun 🌞8y exp
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San Jose, California, United Statesnew role
中文 (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Professional working proficiency)Cloud ComputingData Science+44
Lu S.11y exp
Agentic AI, LLM, NLP
San Francisco Bay Areanew role
knowledge graphMatlabRC+++12
Renyi T.3y exp
Sr. AI Engineer at LinkedIn. RecSys, LLM
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Deep LearningTensorFlowScalaC+++7
Jason Kim6y exp
Applied ML & LLM Systems
San Francisco, California, United Statesnew role
LeadershipPublic SpeakingTeam ManagementBudgeting+17
Mindy Nguyen12y exp
AI/ML Engineer | Production AI Systems | LLM, Search, Real-Time Decision Systems
Irvine, California, United States
English (Full professional proficiency)Vietnamese (native) (Native or bilingual proficiency)AutomationData Visualization+44