Staff Machine Learning Engineer – LLMs

New York

Machine Learning

225000

Permanent

Our client, a FinTech innovator, are hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs) to join the team remotely. The successful candidate will be responsible for building Generative AI and LLMs solutions in a in a fast paced environment that will help transform financial advice delivery.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and customization of large language models tailored for financial use cases.
Apply cutting-edge tuning methodologies to enhance performance across conversational AI, content generation and strategic reasoning tasks.
Create intelligent retrieval systems that combine multiple search approaches, semantic understanding and ranking mechanisms to deliver contextually relevant information at scale.
Engineer autonomous AI systems capable of independent decision-making, integrating feedback loops and adaptive learning techniques to continuously enhance agent capabilities.
Establish comprehensive testing and monitoring frameworks while overseeing production deployments that maintain high-performance standards under real-world conditions.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to transform AI research into market-ready features that solve genuine business challenges.

Skillset

Minimum 5 years of professional experience applying machine learning in commercial settings post-graduation.
Must have at least 2 years’ experience working with LLMs and finetuning like QLORA / LORA and building RAG systems.
Demonstrable success delivering end to end ML /AI products where generative AI drives core functionality, with particular emphasis on systems that exhibit autonomous behavior patterns.

Benefits