Forward Deployed Engineer Lead LLM Post-training
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
