Forward Deployed Engineer, Post-Training
Core
Hands-on technical partner guiding strategic AI customers through post-training LLMs, including data strategy, algorithm selection, experiment design, and evaluation.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Post-Training)
Builds
Fine-tuning and reinforcement learning (RL) platforms for open-source foundation models
Domain
Generative AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM post-training (SFT, LoRA, DPO, RL), experiment design, data strategy, Python, open-source model landscape knowledge, RL workload sizing
Preferred skills
Self-directed research of new open-source models, building evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-judge), contributing code and recipes
Technologies
Python, SFT, LoRA, DPO, GRPO, PPO
Responsibilities
Define and execute customer data strategies for post-training; recommend post-training approaches; design experiments and tune hyperparameters; build evaluation frameworks; guide base model selection; scope RL and fine-tuning workloads; lead technical execution for strategic accounts; provide product feedback and contribute code
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
