Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Llms)

Albi

  • Chicago, IL
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    We’re building deeply integrated LLMs into a real product used daily by restoration companies running thousands of jobs. You’ll design, train, and ship domain-specific language models that automate real workflows and move real revenue.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, IL

    Description

    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

    Requirements

    • 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

    Benefits

    • 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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