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Senior Machine Learning Engineer (LLMs)

Chicago, Illinois, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, train, and ship domain-specific LLMs to automate workflows for restoration companies.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (LLMs)

Builds

Production LLM systems and data pipelines for restoration company workflows

Domain

AI/ML engineering for the restoration industry

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end LLM system design, fine-tuning (LoRA, instruction tuning, RLHF), transformer architecture, PyTorch or JAX, large-scale data pipelines, experiment tracking, Claude Code proficiency, project ownership, mentoring

Preferred skills

Distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed), inference optimization (quantization, vLLM), SaaS LLM feature shipping, open-source contributions

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, LoRA, FSDP, DeepSpeed, vLLM, Triton, Claude Code

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end LLM systems including architecture, training, evals, and iteration; Build and maintain data pipelines from databases, documents, APIs, and logs; Ship reliable, monitored production models with guardrails; Build and coordinate the AI engineering team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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