LLM Engineer
LLM Engineer
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23-08-2025
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Who is Sonar
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide including the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
You will work on pioneering projects that advance the application of AI and ML within software engineering. This AI Research Engineer role offers the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research develop novel algorithms and contribute to developing software tools that enhance system performance reliability and flexibility. Your work as an AI Engineer will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of our AI products enabling developers to spend less time fixing issues and more time innovating. You will contribute to creating accessible user-friendly and performant solutions that integrate seamlessly with our existing infrastructure.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Conduct applied research in integrating AI/LLM techniques with software engineering practices to improve code quality testing and software maintenance.
- Design and implement experimental prototypes to demonstrate feasibility of new methodologies.
- Training and fine-tuning LLMs (both commercial and open-source) to improve performance
- Implement and maintain pipelines to collect high quality large datasets to train/finetune LLMs.
- Prepare analyze and preprocess large datasets of code used to train LLMs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software engineers and product managers to translate research findings into practical applications.
- Stay informed about the latest advancements in AI/ML and software engineering to identify emerging trends and opportunities for innovation.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other developers/researchers.
- Implement best practices from DevOps to maintain a readable codebase testable infrastructure and documented research artifacts
The Experience You Will Need:
- Masters degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- At least 3 years of experience as a ML/AI/LLM Engineer or AI Scientist ideally in Software Engineering.
- Strong research background in AI ML and SE
- Experience working with generative AI technologies (e.g. GPT-4 BedRock)
- Experience in developing tools or frameworks that utilize AI/ML to enhance software development processes.
- Familiarity with techniques for automated code generation program synthesis and software testing using AI/ML
- Experience in developing and prototyping in Python and R
- Understanding of software development processes and terminology.
- Excellent debugging optimization skills communication and teamwork skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- Cigna for employees and dependents (WW or WWE). (In-patient out-patient maternity preventive care dental).
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus paid annually.
- Commuting: Public transport reimbursement of 60% for monthly subscription.
- Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity Equity and Inclusion:
At Sonar we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds perspectives and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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