Member of Technical Staff, ML Product Engineering
The Inception Company8 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize diffusion and large language models for production use cases.
- Partner with customers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Implement post-training approaches for generative AI models, including agentic workflows.
- Build data preprocessing pipelines, model evaluation processes, and alignment methods for enterprise use cases.
- Deploy and maintain models in production environments at scale.
- Collaborate with product teams to design and implement customer-facing ML features.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience working on ML projects using PyTorch or an equivalent technology.
- Excellent familiarity with transformers and core LLM concepts, including autoregressive pretraining, instruction tuning, in-context learning, LoRA, and KV caching.
- Experience training and fine-tuning LLMs.
- Familiarity with large-scale systems and high-performance computing, including GPU and TPU utilization.
- Experience with Git and Docker.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: expertise in data engineering and synthetic data generation for LLMs.
- Preferred: knowledge of MLOps and production deployment workflows.
- Preferred: experience with vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT for LLM serving.
- Preferred: experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Preferred: experience with model quantization and optimization techniques.
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About The Inception Company
The Inception Company provides technology-enabled, fully managed virtual and live event production for life sciences, including webcasts, broadcast, and video. It operates studios in Fairfield, NJ and Ambler, PA, and offers platforms such as the PandoGo meeting experience and The Inception Portal for AV planning. Founded in 2005 and privately held, the company is headquartered in Fairfield and received private equity investment in 2021.