Member of Technical Staff - Model Training

About Inflection AI

Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI. We're shaping the future of AI by combining emotional intelligence (EQ) and raw intelligence (IQ) to elevate people's potential.

Inflection AI created Pi, the world's first emotionally intelligent AI, to help people work through decisions, emotions, and challenges. Pi is a personal AI agent powered by Inflection AI's foundation model, proving that AI can be personal, empathetic, and contextually aware.

About the Role

As a Model Training engineer, you will design, build, and scale the post-training pipelines that turn a general LLM into a brand-fluent, production-ready assistant. Your innovations in fine-tuning and preference optimization (RLHF, DPO, GRPO, RLAIF) will directly improve reliability, alignment, and cost.

This is a good role for you if you:

• Have hands-on experience training and fine-tuning large transformer models on multi-GPU / multi-node clusters.
• Are fluent in PyTorch and its ecosystem tools (Torchtune, FSDP, DeepSpeed) and enjoy digging into distributed-training internals, mixed precision, and memory-efficiency tricks.
• Have shipped or published work in RLHF, DPO, GRPO, or RLAIF and understand their practical trade-offs.
• Care deeply about training tools, pipelines, and reproducibility-you automate the boring parts so you can iterate on the fun parts.
• Balance research curiosity with product pragmatism-you know when to run an ablation and when to ship.
• Communicate crisply with both technical and non-technical teammates.
• Have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Contribute to end-to-end post-training workflows-dataset curation, hyper-parameter search, evaluation, and rollout-using PyTorch, Torchtune, FSDP/DeepSpeed, and our internal orchestration stack.
• Prototype and compare alignment techniques (e.g., curriculum RL, multi-objective reward modeling, tool-use fine-tuning) and push the best ideas into production.
• Automate training at scale: build robust pipeline components, tools, scripts, and dashboards so experiments are reproducible and easy to trace.
• Define the metrics that matter; run A/B tests and iterate quickly to meet aggressive quality targets.
• Collaborate with inference, safety, and product teams to land improvements in customer-facing systems.

Employee Pay Disclosures

At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company. For this role, Inflection AI estimates a starting annual base salary to fall within the range of $175,000 to $350,000 , depending on a candidate's qualifications and level of experience. This role also includes a meaningful equity component, allowing employees to share in the long-term success of the company.

Benefits

Inflection AI values and supports our team's mental and physical health. We are focused on building a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring place to work. Our benefits include:

• Diverse medical, dental and vision options
• 401k matching program
• Unlimited paid time off
• Parental leave and flexibility for all parents and caregivers
• Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area