Staff LLM Engineer TIFIN
Staff LLM Engineer TIFIN
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$ 190000 - 225000
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WHO WE ARE:
TIFIN is a fintech platform transforming the world of wealth through AIpowered personalization and investment intelligence. Backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan Morningstar Broadridge Hamilton Lane Franklin Templeton and Motive Partners we are led by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs technology experts and wealth management veterans.
Our mission is to create engaging wealth experiences that improve financial outcomes. Just as personalization has reshaped how we experience movies music and shopping TIFIN is bringing that same transformation to investing but with the added responsibility of helping people achieve better financial lives.
We combine design and behavioral science to power intuitive usercentric software and application programming interfaces (APIs). Our investment science and algorithmic engines personalize advice and investment solutions at scale.
Everyones financial journey is different. We match individuals with the right advice and investment opportunities across our wealth marketplace and planning solutions.
OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT
- Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With selfawareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.
- Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge but once a decision is made commit fully.
- I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.
WHAT YOULL BE DOING:
TIFIN is looking for a Staff LLM Data Scientist with Large Language Model (LLM) experience who can work on generative AI products across various holdings for our earlystage ventures. This person will work endtoend training and productionalizing models as well as focus on language translation. We are looking for a creative thinker who can be handson. The ideal candidate is passionate about Generative AI and LLM and their application in the investment space.
You must be a motivated and tenacious selfstarter who is comfortable interpreting technology requirements based on business requirements and implementing them with maximum impact on the users. You will be expected to develop technology that minimizes technical debt while maximizing the customer experience. This is a highimpact role on a lean team that is resultsand executionoriented. We are a team of doers!
THE ROLE:
- Design and finetune open source and proprietary LLMs for various tasks such as answering questions summarization reasoning and planning etc.
- Build advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline including rewriting embedding finetuning hybrid search reranking knowledge graphs etc.
- Develop and integrate agentic workflow systems that empower AI agents to operate autonomously enabling proactive decisionmaking and dynamic interactions.
- Apply reinforcement learning techniquesincluding reinforcement learning fine tuning (e.g. PPO DPO GRPO)to continuously optimize model performance.
- Implement a comprehensive evaluation framework and metrics for model performance
- Deploy models into production environments and ensure low latency reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with product team and software engineering team to build endtoend product systems.
WHO YOU ARE:
- Ph.D./Masters/Bachelors degree in computer science mathematics statistics engineering or relevant field
- Experienced in the field of NLP/LLM and wellversed with the current and latest stateoftheart research
- Handson experience in various LLM finetuning techniques (e.g. LORA) LLM inference frameworks (e.g. vLLM) advanced RAG pipelines
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing agentic workflows that enable autonomous AI behaviors
- Solid expertise in reinforcement learning fine tuning methodologies and frameworks to optimize AI models
- Excellent knowledge of LLM evaluation methods and metrics
- 68 years of machine learning/deep learning experience within frameworks such as TensorFlow and/or PyTorch
- 2 years of practical experience in the development of generative AI applications
- Experience using LLMs to translate different languages
- Publications at reputable machine learning conference or journal
- Proficient in Python and SQL
- Ability to visualize data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study
- Thrives in a highly demanding entrepreneurial and fastpaced environment
- Is a top performer and has a proactive doer and problemsolver mentality
- Is highly flexible has a good tolerance for ambiguity and can quickly adapt to changing priorities
- Is an exceptional team player with solid communication skills
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS PACKAGE:
The expected starting salary range for this position is between $190000 $225000. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other jobrelated factors permitted by law.
TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Flexible PTO policy and Companypaid holidays
- Parental Leave: 12 week paid maternity 6 week paid paternity leave
- Corporate Social Responsibility and volunteering opportunities
- Access to our Chief Mindfulness Officer for Mindfulness events and 1:1 personal coaching
- Company sponsored events like mindfulness events development workshops team dinners pickleball games happy hours holiday parties and more!
- The ability to make a real impact in an incredibly fastgrowing organization
TIFIN is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race national origin religion age color sex sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
