CareerPlan

Founding ML Research Engineer

USAFull-time$200k2026-10-15 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Build evaluation systems, post-train large language models, and develop model routing to improve product quality and agent reliability.

Role type

Founding ML Research Engineer (LLM post-training & evaluation)

Builds

Production ML models, evaluation systems, and agent routing logic

Domain

Generative AI, Large Language Models, Agent Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM post-training (SFT, preference tuning, distillation), evaluation system design, model routing, adversarial testing, Python, TypeScript

Preferred skills

Red teaming, browser/computer-use agents, long-running memory systems

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, LLM frameworks

Responsibilities

Build evaluation systems using real conversations; Post-train LLMs with supervised fine-tuning and distillation; Develop and evaluate model routing; Test adversarial inputs and build safeguards; Apply ML to memory, retrieval, and tool selection; Review conversations to set research direction.