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AI Engineer - Model Adaptation & Evaluation

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Adapt, evaluate, and deploy open-weight language models for specialized operational use cases in constrained or secure environments.

Role type

LLM Fine-Tuning Engineer

Builds

Task-specific systems derived from foundation models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

supervised fine-tuning (SFT), parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA), preference tuning (DPO), dataset curation, synthetic data generation, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, GPU optimization, quantization-aware workflows

Preferred skills

debugging model regressions, translating domain needs into evaluation criteria

Technologies

PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers

Responsibilities

Fine-tune and adapt open-weight LLMs for specialized use cases; Design, run, and compare post-training approaches; Build, clean, and improve high-quality datasets; Generate and validate synthetic data; Define and implement evaluation methods; Analyze model regressions and failure modes; Package, serve, and operationalize tuned models in restricted environments

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC

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