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Your work will focus on integrating and fine-tuning AI Models, optimizing the model performance, and ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, security, and scalability.This is a hands-on engineering role where you will:\nDevelop and optimize LLM and VLM-powered solutions for enterprise use cases\nDevelop and optimize TTS, STT and ML models\nApply software engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, modular design, documentation)\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams (data engineers, MLOps, cloud architects, and business stakeholders)\nSolve real-world enterprise challenges (security, compliance, legacy system integration)\nOwn the full lifecycle of AI models, from data exploration to production monitoring\nYou will work closely with vector8’s Engineers and Project Managers to co-design AI foundations that enable organizations to scale AI from individual use cases to enterprise-wide capabilities.The role is primarily based in Paris, with occasional travel to client sites and collaboration with teams across Europe. \nResponsabilidades\n1. End-to-End Model DevelopmentDesign, implement, and deploy distributed, high-volume, high-performance, low-latency machine learning solutions, with a focus on GenAI models, and especially LLM integrations and API-driven architectures\nTake ownership of your models throughout their entire lifecycle:\nData exploration and cleaning to build reproducible, versioned datasets\nState-of-the-art research to identify the best architectures for the problem (e.g., transformers, RAG, fine-tuning)\nImplementation, training, and optimization in reproducible environments\nDeployment, monitoring, and maintenance in production\nOptimize models for performance, latency, and cost efficiency, especially in LLM serving and inference\n2. Software Engineering for AIWrite clean, modular, and well-documented code in Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio)\nApply best practices in:Testing (unit, integration, end-to-end)\nCI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)\nObservability (logging, monitoring, tracing)\n\nEnsure security and compliance (data protection, access controls, encryption)\nIntegrate models and code into CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment\n3. AI & ML Integration & API DevelopmentDesign and implement AI-powered solutions that integrate with APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures\nDevelop and optimize AI pipelines for:Dataset cleaning, preprocessing and model training\nFine-tuning (domain adaptation, instruction tuning)\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (vector databases, semantic search)\nPrompt engineering (optimizing inputs for performance, cost, and accuracy)\n\nModel evaluation (benchmarking, bias detection, drift analysis)\nBuild scalable, secure, and cost-efficient serving infrastructure (e.g., FastAPI, vLLM)\nDebug and optimize performance (latency, throughput, token efficiency for Transformer based architectures)\n4. Enterprise AI & MLOpsDeploy and monitor AI models in production\nDesign and implement MLOps pipelines for:Model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation\nModel versioning and lineage tracking\nA/B testing and canary deployments\n\nEnsure scalability and reliability (auto-scaling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery)\nCollaborate with data engineers to build data pipelines (batch, streaming, real-time)\n5. Collaboration & Technical LeadershipWork closely with product owners, DevOps, and quality assurance in an agile, cross-functional team\nMentor junior engineers and promote best practices in AI/ML and software engineering\nTranslate product requirements into technical solutions and architectural decisions\nDocument architectures, decisions, and best practices for internal and client-facing use\nDevelop relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including clients and partners\n6. Innovation & Continuous ImprovementStay ahead of the latest AI and ML architectures (transformers, Mixture of Experts, sparse attention).\nExperiment with cutting-edge techniques (quantization, distillation, speculative decoding).\nEvaluate and benchmark open-source and proprietary models (Llama, Mistral, Mixtral, GPT-4, Claude).\nBring your own ideas through vector8’s ideation process.\nContribute to vector8’s AI accelerators (reusable components for common industry problems).\nEmbrace a strategic and continuous improvement mentality to drive innovation.\nRequisitos\n5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, software development, or a related field\nExpertisein LLM architectures and training methodologies:Transformers, attention mechanisms, fine-tuning, RAG, quantization\nPrompt engineering, model evaluation, bias detection\n\nStrong knowledge of machine learning architectures: fully connected, CNN, LSTM, transformers and classical ML models\nStrong software engineering skills:Proficient in Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio, type hints)\nExperience with API development \nFamiliarity with modern toolchains (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)\n\nHands-on experience with LLM integrations:LLM providers\nVector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus)\nModel serving (vLLM, TGI, KServe)\n\nExperience with MLOps and production deployments\nUnderstanding of enterprise challenges:Security, compliance, scalability, cost optimization.\n\nExperience with relational and non-relational databases.\nStrong problem-solving and debugging skills.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills (fluent in English; 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