About Us
We’re LastMile AI, a company revolutionizing the way enterprises build, evaluate and deploy AI systems. Our flagship product, AutoEval, empowers organizations to fine-tune and assess AI models with unparalleled precision, scalability and ease. We are a small team, primarily comprised of experienced engineers and product designers.
Learn more here: Careers @LastMile AI
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior ML Engineer to lead our ML efforts in retrieval and evaluation models. You will be responsible for leading our ML research and developing language models in-house, starting with fine-tuned models for specific use cases or customers. Additionally, you will work with the infrastructure team to build systems that efficiently and deploy these models at scale. You will also educate the team on the latest ML research and identify opportunities to advance our ML expertise.
Key Responsibilities
You will be operating at the cutting edge of AI research, tasked with solving the hardest ML problems on the team, sometimes with no well-defined answers.
- Fine-tuning foundation models for both our enterprise customers and our own platform and needs, which involves keeping up with the latest research, working closely with technical teams and experimenting with different architectures to improve the performance of our models.
- Work with the infrastructure team to build tuning and inference layers that can scale to handle large amounts of data and ensure good performance.
- Be the person on the team who helps LastMile stay current on state-of-the-art research and best practices, especially for foundation models. This involves organizing internal learning sessions, curating external resources and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Grow and build an ML engineering team as we scale up.
Nice to Have
- Graduate degree in relevant discipline is preferred.
- Open-source contributions in ML and engineering communities.
Why Join Us?
- Rapidly scale your ML impact leading our ML team.
- Work alongside a passionate and talented team of technologists and innovators.
- Competitive salary, equity and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the company's trajectory.
- Flexible work environment with a culture that values autonomy and growth.
How to Apply