Liquid AI

Liquid AI

Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 180 days ago
Machine LearningPyTorchNLPLLMs

About the role

  • This is a rare chance to own applied post-training work end-to-end for text workloads, adapting Liquid Foundation Models for some of the world's largest enterprise customers.
  • You will act as the technical bridge between customer requirements and model delivery.
  • If you care about data quality, evaluation design, and making language models actually work in production for real customers, this is the role.

Responsibilities

  • Spun out of MIT CSAIL, we build general-purpose AI systems that run efficiently across deployment targets, from data center accelerators to on-device hardware, ensuring low latency, minimal memory usage, privacy, and reliability.
  • You will lead engagements from scoping through evaluation, with full ownership over how text models are adapted and shipped.
  • Between engagements, you will build reusable applied workflows and tooling that accelerate future delivery.
  • Design and execute data generation, filtering, and quality assessment processes for text corpora
  • Design task-specific evaluations for text model performance and interpret results
  • Build reusable applied tooling and workflows that accelerate future customer engagements

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with data generation and evaluation for LLM post-training
  • Experience training or fine-tuning models using SFT, instruction tuning, RLHF, DPO, or similar preference alignment methods
  • Experience with text-specific post-training workflows: chat model alignment, instruction tuning, or text data curation at scale
  • Proficiency with open-source ML ecosystem (Hugging Face, PyTorch) and modern model architectures

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with inference optimization frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT)
  • Has built reusable applied workflows or tooling that accelerate future customer engagements

Compensation

  • Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company
  • Health: We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
  • Financial: 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay

Benefits

  • Compensation: Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company
  • Health: We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
  • Time Off: Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year

Company info

  • We partner with enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services.
  • We are scaling rapidly and need exceptional people to help us get there.

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