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Senior Applied AI Engineer - Remote

Applied AI Engineer with 3+ years of experience in core machine learning, model training, fine-tuning, and production deployment, building scalable AI systems and LLM-powered applications.

Company Details

Conqr AI is an early-stage startup building AI solutions for regulated, document-heavy professional workflows. The company focuses on privacy, security, reliability, and delivering high-impact AI products for enterprise users.

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Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

  • 3+ years of experience as an AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, or similar role.

  • Strong experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying machine learning models to production.

  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.

  • Experience operating and maintaining production ML systems.

  • Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms.

  • Familiarity with cloud ML services such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, or similar platforms.

  • Strong understanding of API design and distributed system architecture.

  • Experience implementing MLOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and model monitoring.

  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Knowledge of PostgreSQL and modern data infrastructure.

  • Experience with LLMs, RAG systems, and vector databases is a strong plus.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of production AI and ML systems from experimentation to deployment.

  • Train, fine-tune, and optimize machine learning models, including LLMs and open-weight models.

  • Build and maintain training, data processing, and inference pipelines.

  • Improve model performance across accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost.

  • Implement MLOps best practices for deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and automated retraining.

  • Develop evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, and quality checks for production models.

  • Design and maintain scalable APIs and services that expose AI capabilities.

  • Collaborate with Product, Backend, and Frontend teams to integrate AI into customer-facing workflows.

  • Monitor production systems and continuously improve model and infrastructure performance.

  • Research and evaluate emerging AI techniques, tools, and frameworks.

Job Details

Location: Remote

Interview Process

  • Recruiter Screening

  • Hiring Manager Discussion

  • Applied AI Technical Assessment

  • Founder Round

  • Final HR Discussion

Important Note

ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Conqr AI hire an Applied AI Engineer.

What this application asks

recruitee

Full name, Email, CV, Phone

  • How many years of experience do you have as an Applied AI Engineer or similar role? choose one
  • What is your notice period? (We are looking for candidates who can join within 30 days) choose one
  • Do you have experience in fine-tuning LLMs? yes / no
  • Is your notice period negotiable? choose one
  • Do you have experience working at a product-based company? yes / no
  • Are you a citizen of India and currently based in India? yes / no
  • What is your current annual CTC range? (INR) choose one
  • Please share the figures for your current CTC breakup: Fixed, Variable, ESOPs (with vesting), and any other components
  • What is your expected annual CTC? (INR)
  • Help us with your LinkedIn profile link
  • Walk us through the last time you personally fine-tuned an LLM with LoRA or QLoRA, start to finish. written answer
  • What model did you fine tune, what data did you use, what hardware was it running on, what you changed when it didn't work the first time, and how did you test it on benchmarks written answer
  • What interests you in the company Conqr (https://www.conqr.ai/)? written answer
  • Why do you want to leave your current role? written answer
  • Where did you find this job opportunity? (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc). If someone referred you, please mention their name and contact number so we can thank them. (Write NA if not applicable). written answer

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