Senior AI/ML Engineer / Aerospace Unicorn / $500k+ / NYC jobs in United States
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Open Talent · 14 hours ago

Senior AI/ML Engineer / Aerospace Unicorn / $500k+ / NYC

positionNew York, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$200K/yr - $500K/yr

Open Talent is a fast-growing and innovative aerospace AI company in North America. They are seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to own and scale a RAG-driven AI system for critical aerospace operations.

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Hiring Manager
Sufyan Bashir
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Responsibilities

Own the LLM pipeline end-to-end – retrieval → evaluation → fine-tuning
Improve accuracy, grounding, and eval metrics continuously
Make architecture decisions for scale, reliability & speed
Collaborate directly with founders & domain experts

Qualification

LLM-based systemsRetrieval optimisationFine-tuningMonitoring inferencePythonPyTorchLangChainHugging FaceFastAPIContinuous improvementHigh-performance teamsCollaboration

Required

Deploying LLM-based systems at scale (Llama, Mistral, GPT-4, Claude)
Retrieval optimisation - hybrid search (BM25 + vector), reranking, caching
Evaluation - recall@k, precision@k, groundedness, hallucination metrics
Fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), RAG architecture, LangChain / LlamaIndex
Tooling: Hugging Face, Weaviate/Pinecone, FastAPI, PyTorch, Redis, Postgres
Monitoring inference, eval automation, & continuous improvement loops
Own the LLM pipeline end-to-end – retrieval → evaluation → fine-tuning
Improve accuracy, grounding, and eval metrics continuously
Make architecture decisions for scale, reliability & speed
Collaborate directly with founders & domain experts
Proven 0-1 experience in a fast-moving AI startup, or Defence related company
You've shipped reliable GenAI systems under pressure
Degree in Computer Science from a top-tier university
Prior experience in high-performance teams (0-1, startups)
You've shipped real systems - not demos

Preferred

IoT or Hardware integration or real-time systems experience exp
CS or Applied ML degree from a top-tier university
Deep experience with LLMs, LangChain, Hugging Face & real deployments
Ideal: startup DNA, top-tier CS degree, fast execution mindset

Benefits

Equity

Company

Open Talent

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🚀 Recruiting elite-tier 0.1% AI/ML, GTM & software engineers in New York City, partnering exclusively with the most ambitious scale-ups from pre-seed through Series D.
location
City of London, GB
people-size2-10 employees

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
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