Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research and Model Development

About the role

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that learns from email, calendar, and meeting interactions to organize accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights. The team is inspired by the challenge of creating innovative AI products for serious work, and is looking to grow its AI/ML team.

Responsibilities

• Create and ship magical, highly-differentiated AI experiences that sales teams can’t live without
• Craft Lightfield AI/ML strategy in tight collaboration with founders and execs
• Pioneer the training of new models that leverage both historical data and synthetic training data
• Prototype innovative, LLM-powered experiences, and drive their development into robust product features
• Help build a world-class AI/ML engineering team by recruiting and mentoring teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience in NLP, with a strong portfolio of model training
• A strong understanding of deep learning AI/ML frameworks or cloud services
• Hands-on ML Ops experience
• Deep expertise in NLP and model training, specifically with LLMs
• Proven experience adapting open-source generative models for specific use cases, demonstrating a deep understanding of its architecture and capabilities
• Bonus points: Proven track record of leading successful AI/ML research projects in a product environment, Publications in applied AI/ML scientific journals, Experience navigating open source/vendor solutions in LLM ops space (Langchain, Llama, Pinecone, etc)

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading successful AI/ML research projects in a product environment
• Publications in applied AI/ML scientific journals
• Experience navigating open source/vendor solutions in LLM ops space (Langchain, Llama, Pinecone, etc)

Skills

• NLP
• Deep learning AI/ML frameworks or cloud services
• Hands-on ML Ops experience
• Model training, specifically with LLMs
• Adapting open-source generative models for specific use cases

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful early equity
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 3 weeks of PTO
• 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
• 3 months of paid family leave
• 401k plan
• Commuter and lunch stipend