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Less \"train a model from scratch,\" more \"make foundation models do useful work at scale, cheaply, and without hallucinating.\"\nWhat you'll do\nDesign and build LLM applications: RAG pipelines, agents, tool-use systems, structured generation, multi-step workflows\nOwn prompt engineering and evaluation - write evals before you write prompts, and treat both as code\nIntegrate foundation models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-weight Llama/Qwen/Mistral) and know when to reach for which\nBuild the unglamorous infrastructure that makes LLMs production-grade: caching, streaming, retries, fallbacks, cost controls, observability, guardrails\nFine-tune or distill models when prompting hits a wall (LoRA/QLoRA, SFT, DPO)\nPartner with product and design on UX patterns specific to AI (latency masking, streaming UIs, confidence display, human-in-the-loop)\nWhat we're looking for\n3+ years of software engineering, with at least 1 year shipping LLM-based features in production\nStrong Python and TypeScript; comfortable in a real codebase, not just notebooks\nDeep practical knowledge of the LLM stack: prompting techniques, function calling, structured outputs, context management, embedding models, vector search\nHave built and maintained an eval suite - and have opinions on why most public benchmarks are misleading\nComfortable with at least one orchestration approach (custom, LangGraph, Inngest, Temporal) and one vector store (pgvector, Pinecone, Turbopuffer, Weaviate)\nCost- and latency-aware: can read a token bill and a trace and know where to cut\nClear communicator who can push back when \"just add AI\" isn't the right answer\nNice to have\nExperience with agent frameworks and MCP (Model Context Protocol)\nFine-tuning experience on open-weight models, or work with inference servers like vLLM/TGI/SGLang\nBackground in security, evals, or red-teaming for LLM systems\nContributions to open-source AI tooling\nWhat we offer\nWork from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings\n\nFSA/HSA\nTuition reimbursement\nCompetitive salary, 401(k) with company match\nUnlimited PTO\nAdditional health and wellness benefits and perks\nFlexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work \nThe salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels and the base salary can range from $210k-$280k+ based on your assessed level. Compensation also includes meaningful equity, healthcare, unlimited PTO, and more.\nEqual Employment Opportunity at Machinify\nWe are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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