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Liam Cheng

Liam Cheng

Principal ML Engineer at Canva
Principal ML Engineer at CanvaLos Angeles, CA · America/Los_Angeles7 yrs · IC4
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AI match score
77/ 100
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Last touched1mo ago
OwnerJordan Peretz
Comp expectation$279,922–$391,862
Flight risklow
OverviewExperience6Education2Skills16Projects1Activity13

Current role

Principal ML Engineer · Apr 2023—Present (3 yr)

CA
Canva
SaaS · enterprise · Team of 10

Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

Selected accomplishments

  • Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +31% task-completion rate in the user cohort

    Designed a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval path with re-ranking; reduced hallucinations on long-tail queries.

  • Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    74+ teams onboarded in 6 months

    Built rubric-based offline evals that gated deploys; reduced regression incidents materially.

  • Migrated serving from a legacy stack to a unified gateway
    −52% p95 latency

    Rewrote the streaming path in Go, introduced batched prefill, and cut GPU cost-per-token by 28%.

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Match77
Activities13
SequenceFounding engineer · step 3/5
Next actionTechnical screen on Apr 18

Associated req

Staff Security Engineer, Application Security
Security · IC5
$300,000–$420,000

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