CareerPlan

Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model Lifecycle

San Francisco, CA - USFull-time$250k–$300k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-09

Core

Building a comprehensive managed platform for the entire application development lifecycle, focusing on leveraging Machine Learning models including Large Language Models (LLMs).

Role type

Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI Model Lifecycle)

Builds

Managed platform for AI model development, fine-tuning, and training pipelines

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Generative AI / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Fine-tuning large foundation models, Multi-node orchestration, Checkpointing, Failure recovery, Cost-efficient scaling, End-to-end training pipelines, Reinforcement learning (RFT), Distillation, Preference optimization, Policy optimization, Reward modeling, Dataset management, Model versioning, Experiment management, PyTorch, Golang, Python

Preferred skills

Open-source AI contributions (vLLM), GPU system performance optimizations, Inference frameworks

Responsibilities

Manage fine-tuning systems for large foundation models, Implement and maintain end-to-end training pipelines for LLMs, Execute Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) and Reinforcement learning, Build distillation and reinforcement learning pipelines, Manage dataset, model, and experiment lifecycle

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC