LLM or GenAI Application Engineer

FocusKPI is looking for anLLM or GenAI Application Engineerto join one of our clients a high-tech SaaS company.

An LLM or GenAI Application Engineer or LLM Research Engineer roleis mainly focused on the consumer-facing applications. The role will be a part of the core GenAI AI development team within the client. It primarily contributes to LLM-based application development evaluation and testing of new features as well as core technology such as an agent framework utilizing the latest technology. stack LLM technology.

Work Location:Mountain View CA
Duration:12-month contract; Hybrid role (4 days per week onsite)
Pay Range:$110/hr to $120/hr

**No C2C resumes are considered**

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design train and fine-tune large language models (e.g. GPT LLaMA PaLM) for various applications.
• Research cutting-edge techniques in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to improve model performance.
• Explore advancements in transformer architectures multi-modal models and emergent AI behaviors.
• Collect clean and preprocess large-scale text datasets from diverse sources.
• Develop and implement data augmentation techniques to improve training data quality.
• Ensure data is free from bias and aligned with ethical AI standards.
• Optimize model architecture to improve accuracy efficiency and scalability.
• Implement techniques to reduce latency memory footprint and inference time for real-time applications.
• Collaborate with MLOps teams to deploy LLMs into production environments using Docker Kubernetes and cloud.
• Develop robust evaluation pipelines to measure model performance using key metrics like accuracy perplexity BLEU and F1 score.
• Continuously test for bias fairness and robustness of language models across diverse datasets.
• Conduct A/B testing to evaluate model improvements in real-world applications.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in generative AI transformers and NLP research.
• Contribute to research papers patents and open-source projectspresent findings and insights at conferences and internal knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Required to have 5-7years of industrial workexperiencealong with research/academic experience.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Data Science or a related field.
• Strongprogramming skills.
• Expertise with LLM and GenAI application development.
• Experience withdeep learning frameworkssuch as TensorFlow PyTorch or JAX.
• Hands-on experience with transformer-based models (e.g. GPT BERT RoBERTa LLaMA).
• Expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and sequence-to-sequence models.
• Familiarity with Hugging Face libraries and OpenAI APIs.
• Experience with MLOps tools like Docker Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing and GPU acceleration using CUDA.
• Knowledge of reinforcement learning and RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback).

Top 3 skills (must have):

• The candidate must have a real (actual) product experience application development and GenAI-based application shipping.
• Actual or IndustrialLLM or GenAI application experience of at least 2-3 years

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010 FocusKPI Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley California with an East Coast office in Boston Massachusetts.

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