Staff LLM Data Scientist

Summary

Join TIFIN, a fintech platform backed by industry leaders, as a Staff LLM Data Scientist. You will work on generative AI products for early-stage ventures, focusing on tasks like model training, productionalization, and language translation. This role demands end-to-end model development and deployment, requiring collaboration with product and engineering teams. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in NLP/LLM, LLM fine-tuning, and RAG pipelines, along with a strong background in machine learning and deep learning. TIFIN offers a competitive compensation package, including a salary range of $190,000-$225,000, comprehensive benefits, and relocation assistance for those willing to move to Boulder, CO.

Requirements

• Ph.D./Masters/Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or relevant field
• Experienced in the field of NLP/LLM and well-versed with the current and latest state-of-the-art research
• Hands-on experience in various LLM fine-tuning techniques (e.g. LORA), LLM inference frameworks (e.g. vLLM), advanced RAG pipelines
• Excellent knowledge of LLM evaluation methods and metrics
• 6-8+ years of machine learning/deep learning experience within frameworks such as TensorFlow and/or PyTorch
• 2+ years of practical experience in the development of generative AI applications
• Experience using LLMs to translate different languages
• Publications at reputable machine learning conference or journal
• Proficient in Python and SQL
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to visualize data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study
• Thrives in a highly demanding, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced environment
• Is a top performer and has a proactive, "doer", and problem-solver mentality
• Is highly flexible, has a good tolerance for ambiguity, and can quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Is an exceptional team player with solid communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design and fine-tune open source and proprietary LLMs for various tasks such as answering questions, summarization, reasoning and planning, etc
• Build advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline including rewriting, embedding fine-tuning, hybrid search, reranking, knowledge graphs, etc
• Implement a comprehensive evaluation framework and metrics for model performance
• Deploy models into production environments and ensure low latency, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate with product team and software engineering team to build end-to-end product systems

Benefits

• Performance linked variable compensation, including equity
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays
• Parental Leave: 12 week paid maternity, 6 week paid paternity leave
• Corporate Social Responsibility and volunteering opportunities
• Access to our Chief Mindfulness Officer for Mindfulness events and 1:1 personal coaching
• Company sponsored events like Qi Gong, mindfulness events, development workshops, team dinners, pickleball games, happy hours, holiday parties and more!
• The ability to make a real impact in an incredibly fast-growing organization