Senior LLM Engineer, R&D
The New York Times7 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement LLM-backed APIs using evaluation, grounding, and fine-tuning practices.
- Deploy reliable, high-traffic LLM services in cloud environments such as GCP or AWS.
- Transition experimental features into stable production systems.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical work and provide estimates and progress updates.
- Maintain documentation for feature handoff and future maintenance.
- Evaluate emerging AI and LLM technologies and advocate for appropriate best practices.
- Use instrumentation, monitoring, and golden datasets to improve product accuracy and robustness.
- Build algorithmic and AI text-processing capabilities such as text segmentation, semantic chunking, and restructuring.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Professional experience architecting and shipping applications that use LLMs.
- Experience with multi-step chaining and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Strong understanding of LLM evaluations and experience with instrumentation, monitoring, and golden datasets.
- Experience in algorithmic and AI text processing.
- Preferred: experience building reliable, scalable back-end services in GCP or AWS.
- Preferred: familiarity with AWS Step Functions, Google Cloud Workflows, Dagster, or Braintrust.
- Preferred: experience building front-end user interfaces for LLM-backed products.
- Applicants must provide relevant work samples such as code snippets, URLs, or project summaries.
Benefits
- Temporary position expected to last through November 2027.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Potential eligibility for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock for U.S. roles.
- Potential benefits include medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401(k) matching, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and professional development programs.
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