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FDE does not replace our Solutions Architects. You will work alongside them as the deep-domain specialist in post-training, guiding customers through data strategy, algorithm selection, experiment design, and evaluation, and sizing the compute behind it. You’ll make sure we can deliver on our post-training POCs, drive adoption of our fine-tuning and RL platform, and turn customer goals into measurable gains in model quality. Your work directly affects customer success, company growth, and the hardening of our core platform.\nResponsibilities\nData Strategy: Help customers define and execute their data strategy for model post-training, diagnose data quality issues that limit model performance outcomes, and provide recommendations for data generation for post-training scale\nAlgorithm Selection: Recommend the right post-training approach for each use case\nExperiment Design & Hyperparameter Tuning: Design well-controlled experiments and tracking methods; diagnose training instabilities, reward hacking, and regressions.\nEvaluation: Build evaluation frameworks with customers, including task-specific benchmarks, LLM-as-judge pipelines, and held-out test sets. Make sure gains are reproducibly aligned with production success metrics.\nModel Selection: Guide base model selection methodology ahead of post-training efforts and baseline quality evaluations to guide post-training objectives. 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Contribute code, recipes, and reference implementations where needed, and drive early adoption of new features and research with strategic logos.\nRequirements \nExperience: 5+ years in a technical role in ML engineering, Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineering, or Solutions Architect, with recent hands-on experience post-training LLMs.\n Post-Training Depth: Expert-level, hands-on experience with fine-tuning and/or RL for LLMs, including SFT, LoRA, DPO, and RL (GRPO, PPO, etc)..\nExperimental Rigor: Strong track record designing experiments, running ablations, and building evaluations that separate real improvement from noise.\nData Intuition: Proven ability to build and iterate on training datasets\nModel Landscape Awareness: Broad knowledge of state-of-the-art open-source models and strong judgment on which base model to post-train for a given customer requirements\nCoding Proficiency: Strong Python skills; comfortable working in production environments.\nExperience leading complex, customer-facing technical projects, with exceptional project management and communication skills. 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