Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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We are seeking an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our AI/ML team and build the infrastructure that powers the development, evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement of our language models and AI systems.
As our AI capabilities expand, we need robust infrastructure for moving models from experimentation into production. This role will own critical parts of that lifecycle, including LLMOps, fine-tuning infrastructure, model evaluation, dataset pipelines, experiment management, model serving, and production observability.
In order to do this job well: This is an engineering-heavy ML role. You will build platforms and infrastructure that allow AI engineers and researchers to rapidly experiment with models, datasets, and training techniques while maintaining the reproducibility, scalability, and reliability required for production systems.
You will work across the full model lifecycle - from dataset creation and experimentation through training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
This role is a full-time position based in our Pittsburgh, PA office or open to Remote Opportunities.
This role may require up to 25% travel, including periodic travel to our Pittsburgh, PA and Arlington, VA offices for team collaboration, planning activities, and in-person meetings.
Scope of Responsibilities
- Design and build LLMOps infrastructure supporting the development, evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement of production language models.
- Build scalable training and fine-tuning infrastructure for commercial and open-weight language models.
- Develop pipelines supporting supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, preference optimization, and other post-training techniques.
- Build infrastructure for distributed training and GPU-accelerated ML workloads.
- Develop data pipelines for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and synthetic data generation.
- Build systems for dataset versioning, lineage, quality validation, transformation, and reproducible experimentation.
- Develop experiment management infrastructure that enables engineers to compare models, datasets, hyperparameters, prompts, and training techniques.
- Build automated evaluation pipelines that determine whether new models or model versions are ready for production deployment.
- Design model registries, artifact management, versioning, and promotion workflows across development and production environments.
- Build and operate scalable model-serving and inference infrastructure for open-weight and fine-tuned models.
- Develop abstractions that allow product and AI engineering teams to use multiple models and inference providers without tightly coupling applications to a single model or vendor.
- Build observability for model training and inference, including metrics, tracing, logging, resource utilization, model quality, latency, throughput, and cost.
- Optimize training and inference workloads for GPU utilization, throughput, latency, reliability, and infrastructure cost.
- Build automated workflows for model deployment, rollback, canarying, and production validation.
- Investigate model and infrastructure failures across data pipelines, training jobs, inference services, distributed systems, and production environments.
- Evaluate emerging models, training techniques, inference frameworks, and ML infrastructure and determine where they can improve our production systems.
- Partner closely with AI engineers building agentic systems to provide the model, evaluation, and training infrastructure required to continuously improve those systems.
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Air AI
View Company ProfileAir AI (operating at air.ai) is an AI-native platform engineered for enterprise readiness and creative automation. Founded in 2023 by Caleb Maddix and headquartered in Phoenix, USA, Air AI specializes in AI-driven solutions that enable businesses to scale creative workflows while maintaining human oversight. The platform leverages AI agents capable of conducting extended, human-like phone calls with perfect recall and infinite memory, as well as organizing brand libraries and automating repetitive tasks. This allows enterprises and small businesses to streamline operations, reduce manual effort, and enhance productivity. Air AI has raised $70 million in funding and is backed by investors, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Alain Aspect.
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