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TriFetch

Founding AI/Machine Learning Engineer

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
Lead design and implementation of post-training alignment pipelines (SFT, RLHF, RLAIF) using proprietary medical data. Improve model calibration, safety, and clinical correctness via novel techniques, distributed training on GPU clusters, and rigorous evaluation frameworks. Collaborate with co-founders to define research roadmap and ship production-ready ML systems.
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What You Will Bring

  • Deep Post-Training Expertise: Hands-on experience with post-training models for specific applications (SFT, RLHF, RLAIF, Reward Modeling, Knowledge Distillation, etc)

  • Strong Architectural Foundations: Deep understanding of Transformer architectures (attention mechanisms, positional encodings) and ML systems. And knowing when to use which model (sometimes it's simpler models that win!)

  • Large-Scale Training: Experience with distributed training frameworks and optimizing training jobs on GPU clusters.

  • High Velocity & Ownership: You thrive in ambiguous environments, learn quickly, and have a bias toward action. You are comfortable shipping in rapid cycles typical of early-stage startups.

  • Technical Stack: Proficiency in Python, PyTorch. Familiarity with the modern open-source LLM stacks (HuggingFace, Vertex, Vercel, etc.).

(Healthcare experience is preferred but not strictly required if you have exceptional ML fundamentals.)

What You’ll Work On

Architect the Post-Training Stack: Lead the design and execution of alignment pipelines (SFT, RLHF, RLAIF) that bridge the gap between "exam-passing" models and "clinically useful" systems.

  • Leverage Proprietary Data: Utilize our proprietary and open source medical datasets to fine-tune models on edge cases that generic models miss.

  • Novel Technique Experimentation: Research and implement cutting-edge post-training methods to optimize model performance, aiming for improvements in calibration and reliability critical for healthcare.

  • Safety & Evaluation: Build rigorous evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-a-judge, benchmarks) to detect hallucinations, ensure clinical correctness, and guarantee safety before deployment.

  • Strategic Collaboration: Work directly with the co-founders to define the research roadmap and platform strategy.

Bonus Points

  • Research Track Record: Published research in high-impact journals or top-tier ML/AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL).

  • Top Lab Experience: Background working or interning at top research labs (e.g., FAIR, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google DM, MSR, Stanford/CMU/MIT labs).

  • Domain Expertise: Experience dealing with multimodal health data, clinical reasoning, or safety-critical ML systems.

  • Entrepreneurial Spirit: You have founded a company, built early-stage products, or enjoy the "zero-to-one" phase of building.

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