
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (LLMs)
Albi
Job 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:
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Own end‑to‑end LLM systems: architecture, training, evals, and iteration
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Fine‑tune and extend existing models (LoRA, instruction tuning, RLHF)
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Build and maintain data pipelines from product databases, documents, APIs, and logs
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Ship reliable, monitored, production models with clear guardrails
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Collaborate closely with product and engineering to turn messy real‑world problems into working systems
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Build and coordinate the AI engineering team
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Use Claude Code as a core tool for development, refactors, tests, and experiments
This is for you if:
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"How does this actually work under the hood?" is your default question
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You're fine sitting with a hard problem for days and reading papers on weekends to figure it out
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If there's something interesting to learn or solve, it doesn't matter if it's Saturday or 1 a.m., you're in
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You build side projects nobody asked for and write cleaner code than anyone requires
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You're quietly competitive, self‑taught in at least one major skill, and think in systems
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You're slightly allergic to meetings without a clear purpose or owner
Requirements
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5+ years of real world experience in ML / AI engineering
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Proven experience training or substantially contributing to training LLMs (not just calling APIs)
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Deep understanding of transformers, attention, and training dynamics
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Strong Python plus PyTorch or JAX
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Experience with large‑scale data pipelines and experiment tracking
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Hands‑on fine‑tuning (LoRA, instruction / SFT, RLHF or similar)
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Comfortable using Claude Code as part of your daily workflow
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Able to explain complex systems simply to non‑technical stakeholders and go deep with experts
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Track record of owning projects end‑to‑end and mentoring other engineers
Nice to have:
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Distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron, etc.)
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Inference optimization (quantization, speculative decoding, vLLM, Triton)
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Experience shipping LLM features in production SaaS
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Open‑source contributions or published work or patents in ML / NLP
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Microsoft Foundry experience
Benefits
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Competitive salary (based on experience and location)
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Generous PTO
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Medical, dental, and vision coverage
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401(k) plan
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High ownership and autonomy over your work
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Direct collaboration with a small team of smart, kind, motivated engineers
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An environment that values deep work, clear thinking, and real impact
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Regular team events and off‑sites
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Equipment and learning budget to help you do your best work and keep up with the frontier