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Applied AI Engineer

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About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will turn model capabilities into real product behavior. You will own problems end-to-end, from shaping model behavior, to building the systems around it, to ensuring it performs reliably in production. This role sits at the intersection of machine learning, systems, and product, focusing on making AI actually work for users, not just in demos, but in real-world usage.

Sounds great – what will I do?

  • Build and ship AI features end-to-end (model, system,user experience)
  • Design and iterate on prompts, tools, memory, and agent workflows 
  • Turn raw model outputs into structured, reliable, and predictable behaviors 
  • Debug issues across the full stack (model, orchestration, infra, UX) 
  • Optimize for latency, cost, and production reliability 
  • Develop lightweight evaluation frameworks to measure real-world performance 
  • Work closely with product and engineering to translate ambiguous problems into working systems

What you’ll bring

Tech Stack 

  • Python 
  • PyTorch / JAX 
  • LLMs (OpenAI-style APIs, LLaMA, Qwen, etc.) 
  • Inference / serving (e.g. vLLM)
  • Vector DB

Ideal Experience 

  • Strong foundation in machine learning and modern neural network architectures. 
  • Hands-on experience with training, fine-tuning, or deploying ML models 
  • Ability to write clean, production-quality code 
  • Comfort working across abstraction layers (model, infra, product) 
  • Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous, fast-moving environments 
  • Bias toward shipping, iteration, and continuous improvement

Benefits and perks

Skills

Required

InferenceProductionNeural NetworksPyTorchVECTORPythonMachine LearningLLM

Nice to have

ServingOrchestrationData PipelinesCollaborationContinuous Improvement

Your contact

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