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SLM & VLM Engineer — Post-Training, Tool Calling & Agents

Singapore💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-30 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead R&D of Small Language Models (SLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for edge/low-latency production, owning continuous pretraining, instruction tuning, compression, and tool-calling systems.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (SLM/VLM post-training & tool-calling)

Builds

Efficient SLM/VLM models, tool-calling frameworks, and automated data pipelines for edge deployment

Domain

AI/ML, Edge Computing, Manufacturing Technology

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, PyTorch, model compression (distillation/pruning/quantization), CUDA/SIMD optimization, RL (PPO/DPO/GRPO), data pipeline automation, tool-calling architecture

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

PyTorch, CUDA, SIMD

Responsibilities

Conduct continuous pretraining and SFT for SLMs/VLMs; implement compression strategies and optimize low-latency inference; architect production-grade tool calling frameworks; apply RL and reward modeling for alignment; design automated data collection and curation pipelines; build robust evaluation mechanisms and drive rapid iteration

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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