Software Engineer III

 Title
Software Engineer III

Client
Fortune 25 Company

Location
Remote, Within the United States

Schedule
Monday – Friday

Type
Full-time, Ongoing W2, 12-Month Contract, New Role & Possible Extensions

Pay Rate
$97.50, with overtime pay and a half

Benefits
3 Weeks PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Life Insurance, Disability Coverage, Holidays Off but Unpaid

Summary
Our client is seeking an AI Engineer to help build and scale next-generation multimodal AI systems. This role focuses on developing data engines and evaluation platforms that transform raw multi-format data into high-quality benchmarks used to advance large-scale AI models.

This position is ideal for an engineer with strong experience in machine learning systems, dataset development, and model evaluation who thrives in research-driven and highly technical environments.

The AI Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams of researchers and engineers to design datasets, fine-tune models, and build tools that support large-scale AI training and evaluation workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Data Engineering & Dataset Development

• Design and curate datasets for training and evaluating multimodal models (image, video, audio, and text data)
• Develop methods to bootstrap, augment, and rebalance datasets using machine learning models
• Ensure high-quality data pipelines that support large-scale model training

Model Evaluation & Optimization

• Run model evaluations and implement evaluation metrics for multimodal systems
• Fine-tune models using labeled datasets to improve performance and accuracy
• Analyze model outputs to improve training data and benchmarking processes

Platform & Tool Development

• Build and deploy internal tools and annotation task UIs using React and TypeScript
• Develop scalable data ingestion pipelines from warehouses, storage systems, and flat files
• Support high-volume data processing and system optimization

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with research and engineering teams to align on model development and evaluation needs
• Translate research requirements into scalable engineering solutions
• Contribute to the development of production-ready AI systems

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in machine learning, data engineering, or AI systems development

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working with multimodal data (image, video, audio, and text)
• Strong programming experience in Python or similar languages
• Experience with machine learning model training and evaluation workflows
• Strong understanding of data pipelines and large-scale data processing
• Experience building frontend tools using React and TypeScript
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with large language models (LLMs) or multimodal models (MLLMs)
• Familiarity with dataset annotation workflows and tooling 
• Experience with distributed systems or large-scale compute environments
• Background in research-driven or experimental AI environments

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