Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Shaping the future of AI, the full-time Lead Machine Learning Engineer will build and refine pipelines for LLM fine-tuning and distillation, directly impacting how organizations capture and utilize their data, all while working remotely. Key responsibilities Capture and store LLM call data with context, feedback, and retention rules Develop a model quality evaluation system to ensure trust in promoted models Conduct supervised fine-tuning and distillation of open-weight models using rented GPUs Required qualifications 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in production LLM systems Hands-on experience with fine-tuning open-weight models and knowledge of when to use smaller base models Experience in generating and curating training sets through distillation or synthetic-data work Proficiency in building evaluation harnesses for LLM outputs Experience serving open models in production environments with vLLM or similar engines