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AI Engineer - Model Adaptation & Evaluation

💼 Full-time💰 $40,000–$90,000🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Adapt, evaluate, and deploy open-weight language models for specialized operational use cases within autonomous security systems.

Role type

LLM Fine-Tuning Engineer

Builds

Task-specific LLM systems for security vulnerability identification and risk prioritization

Domain

Cybersecurity / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM fine-tuning, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA), dataset curation, synthetic data generation, model evaluation, Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, GPU optimization, quantization

Preferred skills

secure/on-premise deployment, inference optimization, distributed training, red-teaming, cybersecurity background

Technologies

PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO

Responsibilities

Fine-tune and adapt open-weight LLMs for specialized use cases; Design and run post-training approaches (SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO); Build and clean high-quality training and evaluation datasets; Generate and validate synthetic data; Define and implement evaluation methods beyond generic benchmarks; Analyze model regressions and failure modes; Package and serve tuned models in local or restricted environments

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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