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Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering (NYC)

Location

New York

On-site

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$160–500k

Gross per year

Experience

Not specified

Job summary

Responsibilities

On the Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering team , you’ll build, deploy, and operate systems that sit directly between frontier AI research and data delivery.

  • Partner closely with frontier AI labs to understand their data, post-training, and evaluation needs
  • Build and operate scalable data pipelines for post-training workflows and model evaluations
  • Design and build scalable systems for synthetic data generation and data quality, and work directly with customers to understand requirements and develop technical solutions
  • Prototype new data types, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks
  • Lead technical discussions with customers

What they're looking for

  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
  • Experience with model training and inference
  • Strong grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for measuring model performance and improvements
  • Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively

Tech stack

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