2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop AI-assisted workflows using Crucible’s data, APIs, and domain model to surface insights, answer questions, and support user decisions.
- Integrate optimization, forecasting, and other models into reliable production capabilities with data science and software engineering teams.
- Design and build end-to-end AI systems including model interfaces, retrieval, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and production services.
- Select and evaluate models based on capability, reliability, latency, security, and deployment constraints.
- Support AI capabilities across cloud, air-gapped, and edge environments.
- Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, and product teams to turn operational problems into useful AI features.
- Establish technical patterns, evaluation methods, and engineering standards for applied AI across Crucible.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software or ML systems.
- Strong machine learning fundamentals and hands-on experience beyond model API integration.
- Technical ownership of AI/ML systems from experimentation through production, including implementation, architecture, evaluation, and debugging.
- Hands-on experience building production systems with LLMs or other foundation models.
- Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with modern ML frameworks and transformer-based models.
- Experience designing evaluations and monitoring production AI/ML behavior.
- Ability to make technical tradeoffs across model quality, reliability, latency, cost, and system complexity.
- U.S. person required due to ITAR regulations.
- Preferred: experience with open-source models and local model inference.
- Preferred: experience with manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, or other operational software.
- Preferred: experience with model fine-tuning, inference optimization, or GPU deployment.
- Preferred: aerospace, defense, robotics, or other complex physical-system experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Equity grants for new hires.
- Unlimited PTO and a generous company holiday calendar, including July and December holiday hiatuses.
- Generous parental leave.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
- Hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- Basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance are 100% covered by Firestorm, with additional life insurance available for purchase.
- Free 24/7 mental health resources, plus work-life services including legal and financial support.
- Based in San Diego, CA; local candidates and candidates open to relocating are welcome, and relocation assistance may be included where appropriate.
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About Firestorm
Firestorm builds modular, open-architecture unmanned systems and mission-configurable hardware for defense customers, leveraging additive manufacturing to rapidly tailor platforms for diverse Department of Defense mission areas. Its fielded xCell platform is being developed in multiple variants and supported across mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing interfaces. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company sells hardware platforms and components to U.S. and allied military programs.