CareerPlan

Senior Architect, Model Performance and Post-Training

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-10-13 → 2026-11-10

Core

Drive performance modeling, evaluation, and post-training of large language models specialized in code generation and software engineering tasks.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (model performance & post-training)

Builds

Production-ready coding models and evaluation pipelines

Domain

AI / Software Engineering / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, large language models, transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, software engineering fundamentals, code generation, automated testing, experiment tracking, dataset versioning

Preferred skills

state-of-the-art coding model training, execution-based rewards, verifiable rewards, reward hacking mitigation, automated code evaluation, SWE-bench

Technologies

Python, SFT, RL, reward modeling

Responsibilities

Develop frameworks to measure and analyze coding model performance; Develop and optimize post-training pipelines (SFT, RL, reward modeling); Analyze benchmark results and training dynamics to identify improvement opportunities; Build scalable infrastructure for training experiments and evaluation pipelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC