Foundation Model Engineer

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Bright Vision TechnologiesTechnology Consulting
100% Remote (U.S.)Full-TimeSenior
Salary200,000 - 230,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years
Required Skills
PythonPyTorchLLM

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of combined ML research and engineering experience, with significant LLM exposure.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern deep learning frameworks, especially PyTorch.
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer-based language models at non-trivial scale.
  • Familiarity with distributed training strategies including FSDP, ZeRO, and pipeline parallelism.
  • Experience with RLHF, DPO, or other preference optimization techniques.
  • Strong understanding of evaluation methodology, benchmarks, and human evaluation design.
  • Experience operating training jobs on GPU clusters and recovering from failures.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Track record of shipping or publishing impactful LLM work.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute fine-tuning workflows for LLMs using supervised, preference-based, and reinforcement learning methods.
  • Operationalize training pipelines with a focus on data quality, compute budget management, and production reliability.
  • Develop and implement rigorous evaluation methodologies and human evaluation designs.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, design, engineering, and operations to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers and lead code and design reviews to improve engineering standards.
  • Operate and manage complex training jobs on GPU clusters with failure recovery.
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