Principal Ai Engineer

Summary

Join Figure, a leading financial technology firm, and become a key member of our AI Engineering team. We leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to optimize our operations. You will develop and optimize generative AI, train LLMs, build custom models, and analyze data to enhance customer experiences and business outcomes. This role requires extensive experience in NLP and ML model development and deployment. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands on experience building and deploying NLP and ML models in real world production systems
• Hands-on experience training, fine tuning, and/or deploying LLMs
• Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on translating real-life problems into a concrete model development strategy. Blend academic rigor with a sense of pragmatism for rapidly prototyping and delivering solutions
• Experienced in using Python for analysis and modeling
• Experience using web services (GCP, AWS), and distributed data/computing tools (Ray, Spark, Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, etc.)
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize generative AI technologies to streamline, automate, and optimize Figure
• Train, fine tune, and deploy LLM solutions trained on our expansive proprietary data
• Develop custom models and algorithms to apply to large datasets, as well as processes for monitoring and analyzing their performance
• Mine and analyze data to build and train ML models that optimize customer experiences, customer acquisition, underwriting and other business outcomes
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging AI to improve business processes
• Collaborate cross functionally to deploy AI solutions and monitor outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

Experience developing in Kotlin or a background in consumer finance is a huge plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans
• Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care, 401k, and commuter benefits
• Employer-funded life and disability insurance coverage
• 11 Observed Holidays & PTO plan
• Up to 12 weeks paid family leave
• Continuing education reimbursement
• Quarterly 25% bonus target
• Equity stock options package