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Liquid AI · 1 day ago

Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid Level

Liquid AI is a company that builds general-purpose AI systems for various deployment targets. The role involves hands-on technical work, focusing on fine-tuning Liquid Foundation Models for enterprise deployments while ensuring quality and latency targets are met.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyFoundational AIGenerative AIMachine Learning
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Fine-tune LFMs on customer data to hit quality and latency targets for on-device and edge deployments
Generate and curate training data to address specific model failure modes
Run experiments, track metrics, and iterate until customer success criteria are met
Translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical specifications
Provide analytics to commercial teams for contract structuring and pricing
Work across text, vision, and audio modalities as customer needs require

Qualification

Fine-tuning modelsModern ML architecturesData generationCurationDebugging skillsPython programmingPyTorch proficiencyOpen-source ML ecosystemCustomer engagementAnalytics for commercial teams

Required

Hands-on fine-tuning experience with modern LLMs (last 12-18 months): LoRA, PEFT, DPO, instruction tuning, or similar
Strong ML fundamentals: you understand how models learn, fail, and improve
Experience generating or curating training data to address model gaps
Autonomous coding and debugging skills in Python and PyTorch
Proficiency with open-source ML ecosystem (Hugging Face transformers, datasets, accelerate)

Preferred

Experience delivering ML work to external customers with measurable outcomes
Experience with inference optimization (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT, llama.cpp)
Post-training experience: RLHF, DPO, reward modeling

Benefits

We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year

Company

Liquid AI

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Build efficient general-purpose AI at every scale.
dateFounded in 2023
location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
http://liquid.ai

H1B Sponsorship

Liquid AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$293.1M
Key Investors
AMD VenturesOSS Capital L.P.,Stephen Pagliuca,The Pags GroupOSS Capital L.P.
2024-12-13Series A· $250M
2023-12-01Seed· $37.5M
2023-05-05Seed· $5.6M

Leadership Team

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Ramin Hasani
Co-founder and CEO
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Mathias Lechner
Co-founder and CTO

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