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Albi · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (LLMs)

Hybridseniorfull timePosted Mar 9
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machine-learningllmfine-tuningreinforcement-learningetlanthropictransformerspythonpytorchvllmnlp

We’re building deeply integrated LLMs into a real product used daily by restoration companies running thousands of jobs. This is not a “prompt engineer” role. You’ll design, train, and ship domain-specific language models that automate real workflows and move real revenue.

You will:

- Own end‑to‑end LLM systems: architecture, training, evals, and iteration

- Fine‑tune and extend existing models (LoRA, instruction tuning, RLHF)

- Build and maintain data pipelines from product databases, documents, APIs, and logs

- Ship reliable, monitored, production models with clear guardrails

- Collaborate closely with product and engineering to turn messy real‑world problems into working systems

- Build and coordinate the AI engineering team

- Use Claude Code as a core tool for development, refactors, tests, and experiments

This is for you if:

- “How does this actually work under the hood?” is your default question

- You’re fine sitting with a hard problem for days and reading papers on weekends to figure it out

- If there’s something interesting to learn or solve, it doesn’t matter if it’s Saturday or 1 a.m., you’re in

- You build side projects nobody asked for and write cleaner code than anyone requires

- You’re quietly competitive, self‑taught in at least one major skill, and think in systems

- You’re slightly allergic to meetings without a clear purpose or owner

- 5+ years of real world experience in ML / AI engineering

- Proven experience training or substantially contributing to training LLMs (not just calling APIs)

- Deep understanding of transformers, attention, and training dynamics

- Strong Python plus PyTorch or JAX

- Experience with large‑scale data pipelines and experiment tracking

- Hands‑on fine‑tuning (LoRA, instruction / SFT, RLHF or similar)

- Comfortable using Claude Code as part of your daily workflow

- Able to explain complex systems simply to non‑technical stakeholders and go deep with experts

- Track record of owning projects end‑to‑end and mentoring other engineers

Nice to have:

- Distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron, etc.)

- Inference optimization (quantization, speculative decoding, vLLM, Triton)

- Experience shipping LLM features in production SaaS

- Open‑source contributions or published work or patents in ML / NLP

- Microsoft Foundry experience

- Competitive salary (based on experience and location)

- Generous PTO

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

- 401(k) plan

- High ownership and autonomy over your work

- Direct collaboration with a small team of smart, kind, motivated engineers

- An environment that values deep work, clear thinking, and real impact

- Regular team events and off‑sites

- Equipment and learning budget to help you do your best work and keep up with the frontier

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