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Summary

Leads customer LLM post-training engagements end to end, from data assessment through training and deployment. Daily work centers on building reinforcement-learning environments, synthetic-data and evaluation pipelines, running distributed training on GPU clusters, and mentoring engineers.

You will lead customer post-training engagements from data assessment through training and deployment. You will build reinforcement-learning environments, synthetic-data and evaluation pipelines, prepare datasets, run training loops, optimize distributed training, deploy models, and establish technical standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer post-training engagements and define training strategies
  • Design reward signals, verifiers, datasets, training loops, and customer benchmarks
  • Build reinforcement-learning training environments
  • Build synthetic data generation, reward model, and preference data workflows
  • Build evaluation infrastructure and test sets
  • Own data pipelines from raw customer data to training-ready datasets
  • Deploy post-trained models across hybrid environments
  • Define playbooks and technical standards
  • Mentor engineers

Requirements

  • LLM post-training experience at scale
  • Reinforcement learning training environments
  • Preference optimization workflows
  • Synthetic data generation
  • Reward models
  • Verifiers
  • Evaluation methodology
  • Multi-node GPU clusters
  • Distributed training
  • Data pipelines
  • Version control for datasets and models
  • Reproducible workflows
  • 6+ years of engineering experience
  • 2+ years focused on LLM post-training in a leadership capacity
  • Customer-facing technical experience or interest

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Annual wellness allowance
  • Daily office lunch and dinner
  • 22 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited paid time off in the U.S.
  • 30 vacation days in the U.K.
  • Visa sponsorship support
  • Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations

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