Tech Lead, LLM & Generative AI (Full Remote - Turkey)

Shipped AI at scale 8+ years of engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to shipping ML/LLM features to millions of active users Proficient in Python/PyTorch and comfortable with the modern LLM stack (vLLM, HuggingFace, fine-tuning pipelines, eval frameworks) Comfortable working with NSFW content and understanding technical rigor for moderation Intuition for Alignment: Understand LLM physics, prompt conditioning, temperature, and sampling effects Doer Mindset: Value velocity and distinguish between academic and shippable solutions Owner Mindset: Obsess over metrics, regressions, and user experience

Act as Player/Coach: Architect system and mentor team while hands-on in codebase (Python/PyTorch) Own the core chat loop: Optimize context windows, memory/RAG retrieval, and inference latency Drive strategy for SFT and RLHF/DPO Manage the "Data Engine": oversee sourcing, labeling, and cleaning of datasets Design and train custom classifiers for moderation within an explicit environment