Summary
Sofia Samaniego is a Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale, multimodal and sequence-based ML systems for product and research at organizations including Google DeepMind, Twitter Cortex, Cerebras, and Etsy. She specializes in efficient transformer architectures, conditional computation, and multimodal pre-training, and has led work on real-time streaming AI agents, personalized ranking via sequential models, and emotive intent recognition in social media. Sofia combines academic rigor from a Stanford M.S. in Statistics and an Applied Mathematics background with hands-on hardware-ML co-design experience from Cerebras, enabling scalable model training and inference. Born and raised in Mexico City, she brings a mission-driven focus to applying AI for social and environmental impact and a track record of translating research into production-facing solutions. An early trailblazer in her Stanford program, she’s comfortable bridging technical leadership, customer-facing projects, and cross-disciplinary research.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Applied Mathematics, Licentiate degree Applied Mathematics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Master of Science (M.S.) Statistics, Master of Science (M.S.) Statistics at Stanford University
English, Spanish