Staff LLM Data Scientist, TIFIN @Work

$190,000 - $225,000/Yr

Tifin Limited - Boulder, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Boulder, CO

About the position

The Staff LLM Data Scientist at TIFIN @Work is responsible for leveraging AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance workplace financial decision-making. This role involves designing and fine-tuning LLMs, building advanced retrieval systems, and deploying models to improve user experience and financial outcomes for employees. The position requires a hands-on approach to technology development, focusing on minimizing technical debt while maximizing customer impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and fine-tune open source and proprietary LLMs for various tasks such as answering questions, summarization, reasoning, and planning.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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