Founding Machine Learning Engineer is open at Shepherd in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $400K. Posted on Apr 2, 2026, and still on Shepherd’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You will be Shepherd’s first Machine Learning Engineer, embedded in the Fully Autonomous Underwriting (FAU) team. This is a high-ownership, high-ambiguity role. There is no existing ML platform to inherit, no established model registry to maintain. You will build those things. You have the opportunity to define the ML function from the ground up at a company building something genuinely new in a large, underserved…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Shepherd’s careers page.
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Shepherd has 25 open roles right now. Most are in Engineering, Compliance & Legal and Finance & Trading. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $282K. See all its roles
