Staff Applied AI Scientist

Los Angeles, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 267000 - 296000

Posted on: 30 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Gusto

At Gusto were on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stufflike payroll health insurance 401(k)s and HRso owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver San Francisco and New York were proud to support more than 400000 small businesses across the country and were building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About the Role:

In this role youll be responsible for designing building evaluating and shipping products that use proprietary and open source LLMs. Youll be responsible for all aspects of the AI development lifecycle: framing the problem designing the system making decisions on frameworks building evaluation and deploying. As an Applied AI Scientist youll own the customer impact end-to-end.

About the Team:

Were looking to accelerate AI investments across the business to solve customer pain points and are growing our Applied AI team. Youll be a part of the core group of experts exploring big innovative bets quickly prototyping solutions and shipping to customers. Youre also responsible for quickly iterating on improvements and eventually scaling to production-grade AI applications. Youll be working alongside a multidisciplinary group of Product Engineers PMs and Design.

Heres what youll do day-to-day:

Design develop and deploy innovative AI solutions
Improve LLMs through pre-training fine-turning and RL
Build evaluation for LLMs and LLM based products and assess best methods required to build LLMs suited for purpose
Collaborate with the engineering team to determine technical requirements and SLAs for API-enabled services
Research novel AI techniques and strategies that create magical customer experiences

Heres what were looking for:

At least 6 years of software engineering experience (Python Ruby or Java) 8 years of ML experience and 3 years designing and shipping Gen AI models
Proven ability to design and prototype AI solutions quickly
Experience working on AI agent systems to automate end to end workflows
Experience building deploying and maintaining LLM-based applications in production

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $245000-$272000 in Denver $267000-$296000 for Los Angeles and most remote locations $288000-$321000 for San Francisco New York and Seattle. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience level and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver San Francisco and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles Gustos subsidiary whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office a secure reliable and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds not just because its the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses you will find a home at Gusto.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race color religion national origin age sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) marital status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status gender identity or expression sexual orientation or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.

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Required Experience:

Staff IC

About GustoAt Gusto were on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stufflike payroll health insurance 401(k)s and HRso owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver San Francisco and New York were proud to support more than 400000 small businesses acro...