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Forward Deployed Engineer - LLM Post-training

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Drive model fine-tuning and evaluations for enterprise customers by adapting open-weight models for specific domains and tasks.

Role type

Applied ML Engineer (LLM Post-training)

Builds

Fine-tuned language models, evaluation harnesses, and data pipelines for customer use cases.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Enterprise Solutions

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, RLHF), evaluation methodology design, Python software engineering, data pipeline construction, training infrastructure debugging, customer requirement translation

Preferred skills

Experience in fast-paced startup environments, self-starter mentality, high agency

Technologies

Python, GPUs, public cloud, VPC, on-premises environments

Responsibilities

Prepare training datasets from raw customer inputs, run fine-tuning workflows, build and maintain evaluation infrastructure, debug training and inference issues, support end-to-end model deployments, contribute to evolving playbooks and benchmarks

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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