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DatologyAI

datologyai.com
datologyai builds tools to automatically select the best data on which to train deep learning models. our tools leverage cutting-edge research-much of which we perform ourselves-to identify redundant, noisy, or otherwise harmful data points. the a...
datologyai.com • HQ: Redwood City, United States • Data Quality • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence
HQ: Redwood City, United States • Data Quality • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence
Open 134 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Research Scientist

$180k – $300k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (Zurich, Switzerland, San Mateo, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
Snowflake
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
Semantic Search
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Open 412 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Research Scientist, Post-Training

$180k – $300k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Mateo, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
Snowflake
AI/ML
Chain-of-Thought
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
DPO
Post-training
Pre-training
SFT
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Figure AI

figure.ai
Figure AI is an American robotics company founded in 2022 that develops general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial and household work. Its Figure 02 and Figure 03 machines combine custom actuators, battery systems and hands with the in-house Helix vision-language-action model, which lets one neural network drive both perception and motor control from natural-language instructions. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company runs the BotQ manufacturing facility for high-volume production and has piloted its robots on logistics and automotive assembly work with commercial partners.
figure.ai • HQ: San Jose, United States • Manufacturing • Humanoid Robots • Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • Robotics AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: San Jose, United States • Manufacturing • Humanoid Robots • Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • Robotics AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
Top 25% payVerified live · 11 min ago 5 months ago

AI Training Infrastructure Engineer – Humanoid Whole Body Control

$200k – $350k per year • In office (San Jose, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
Game Dev
NVIDIA PhysX
Robotics
Imitation Learning
MuJoCo
PyBullet
Reinforcement Learning
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Top 25% payVerified live · 11 min ago 5 months ago

Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control

$200k – $350k per year • In office (San Jose, United States) • Full-Time
Knowledge Distillation
Reinforcement Learning
PPO
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Sim-to-Real
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Espace Real Estate

espace.ae
Headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Espace Real Estate is a premier property agency and real estate services firm. Established in 2009, the company specializes in residential sales, property leasing, portfolio management, and valuation services. Driven by a team of localized area specialists, it provides tailored market insights and end-to-end guidance to connect buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants across the region.
espace.ae • HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Travel & Tourism • Vacation Rentals • Real Estate Brokerage • Real Estate • 51-200 employees • Est. 2009
HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Travel & Tourism • Vacation Rentals • Real Estate Brokerage • Real Estate • 51-200 employees • Est. 2009
Open 138 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

AI / Embedded ML Engineer

$150k – $225k per year • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (Saratoga, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
C++
Python
Rust
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Anomaly Detection
Edge AI
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
ONNX
PyTorch
Quantization
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
TFLite
DevOps
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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H Company

hcompany.ai
H Company is an artificial intelligence research company headquartered in Paris, France, and founded in 2023 by Charles Kantor with a founding team drawn largely from Google DeepMind. The company develops agentic AI systems, including Runner H, an agent that carries out multi-step tasks in a browser on the user's behalf. It raised one of the largest seed rounds in European history and positions itself as a French alternative in the agent tooling market.
hcompany.ai • HQ: Paris, France • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Software • Multimodal AI • LLM & Generative AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2023
HQ: Paris, France • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Software • Multimodal AI • LLM & Generative AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2023
Open 140 daysVerified live · 4 min ago 5 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Post-training & Reinforcement Learning - London

$104k – $219k per year (Estimated)Remote/Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Python
Rust
AI/ML
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
NLP
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Synthetic Data
TensorFlow
DPO
Post-training
SFT
Function Calling
Mixture of Experts
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2070Health

2070health.com
2070 Health is India’s first Venture Studio which is focusing on building patient-centric healthcare companies from scratch.
2070health.com • HQ: Bengaluru, India • Digital Health • Health Care • Venture Capital
HQ: Bengaluru, India • Digital Health • Health Care • Venture Capital
Open 141 dayVerified live · 7 hours ago 5 months ago

Senior AI Engineer

$31k – $79k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 4+ years expIn office (Bengaluru, India) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Accelerate
DeepSpeed
Embeddings
Falcon
Fine-tuning
Hallucination
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
LoRA
Mistral
Multimodal AI
NLP
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
QLoRA
Qwen
RAG
Tokenization
PEFT
Triton
Hugging Face
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
SFT
AI Agents
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
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Xponentiate

xponentiate.com
Founded in 2022 out of a venture studio, Xponentiate is a specialized recruitment and talent acquisition firm dedicated exclusively to the healthcare sector. The company provides tailored hiring solutions to build C-suite leadership, technical, clinical, and operational teams for digital health, medtech, and pharmaceutical organizations globally. By leveraging deep industry network insights, it connects health-tech startups and enterprise healthcare clients with vetted professionals to accelerate organizational growth.
xponentiate.com • Delhi • Mumbai • Bengaluru • New Delhi • San Francisco • Professional Services
Delhi • Mumbai • Bengaluru • New Delhi • San Francisco • Professional Services
Open 142 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago

Senior AI Engineer

$31k – $79k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (Bengaluru, India) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Accelerate
DeepSpeed
Embeddings
Falcon
Fine-tuning
Hallucination
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
LoRA
Mistral
Multimodal AI
NLP
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
QLoRA
Qwen
RAG
Tokenization
PEFT
Triton
Hugging Face
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
SFT
AI Agents
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
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Inworld AI

inworld.ai
Inworld AI is a company founded in 2021 that builds a runtime for artificial intelligence characters and agents in games and interactive media. Its engine handles dialogue, memory, emotion and safety so studios can drop believable non-player characters into a title without building model infrastructure. The company works with game developers and consumer platforms and has partnered with Microsoft and Nvidia.
inworld.ai • HQ: Mountain View, United States • Speech & Audio AI • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
HQ: Mountain View, United States • Speech & Audio AI • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
$140k – $334k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years exp • Remote (Switzerland) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • PhD • Full-Time • Principal
C++
Python
Rust
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Multimodal AI
Quantization
Ray
vLLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Open 147 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - UK

$189k – $270k per year • Lead • 10+ years expIn office • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • PhD • Full-Time • Principal
C++
Python
Rust
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Multimodal AI
Quantization
Ray
vLLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Lead • 10+ years expIn office • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Python
Rust
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Multimodal AI
Quantization
Ray
vLLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Phantom

phantom.ai
Phantom AI | Affordable, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to save lives and revolutionize driving.
phantom.ai • Mountain View • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving
Mountain View • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving
Open 151 dayVerified live · 5 hours ago 5 months ago

Senior/Staff Computer Vision Engineer - Deep Learning Focus

$180k – $240k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years expIn office (Mountain View, United States) • Master's Degree • Staff
Python
C++
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Computer Vision
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Knowledge Distillation
Quantization
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Robotics
NVIDIA Drive
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Apheris

apheris.com
Apheris enables federated machine learning so that models can be trained across organisations without moving the data. Founded in 2019 in Berlin, it focuses on pharmaceutical and industrial consortia that cannot pool proprietary datasets. Its governance layer defines exactly what computations each party permits.
apheris.com • HQ: Berlin, Germany • Pharmaceuticals • Artificial Intelligence • Biotechnology • Est. 2019
HQ: Berlin, Germany • Pharmaceuticals • Artificial Intelligence • Biotechnology • Est. 2019
Open 152 days 5 months ago

Forward-Deployed ML Engineer – Cofolding

Remote (Germany) • Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
Edge AI
Federated Learning
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Waabi

waabi.ai
Waabi is an artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicle technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2021. The company develops an end-to-end artificial intelligence software platform, known as the Waabi Driver, and a simulation environment called Waabi World to power autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It operates primarily in the North American logistics and transportation sectors through strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Volvo, Uber Freight, and NVIDIA.
waabi.ai • HQ: Toronto, Canada • Supply Chain • Robotics AI • Simulation & Digital Twin • Software • Road Transport • Transportation & Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2021
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Supply Chain • Robotics AI • Simulation & Digital Twin • Software • Road Transport • Transportation & Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2021
Open 152 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 5 months ago

Research Engineer, World Models

$94k – $232k per year (Estimated)Remote/Hybrid (Toronto, Canada) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
Kubeflow
LLM
Multimodal AI
ONNX
PyTorch
Ray
TensorRT
VLM
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Open 158 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 6 months ago

Research Scientist, World Models

$95k – $235k per year (Estimated)Remote/Hybrid (Toronto, Canada) • PhD • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
VLM
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Dyna Robotics

dynarobotics.com
Dyna Robotics is a robotics foundation model company headquartered in Redwood City, California, and founded in 2024. The company trains general purpose manipulation models that let a single robot arm learn commercial tasks such as folding, packing, and handling from demonstration rather than explicit programming. It targets repetitive physical work in laundries, restaurants, and light manufacturing, and publishes model progress through its DYNA series of releases.
dynarobotics.com • HQ: Redwood City, United States • Multimodal AI • Service & Hospitality Robotics • Robotics AI • Artificial Intelligence • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2024
HQ: Redwood City, United States • Multimodal AI • Service & Hospitality Robotics • Robotics AI • Artificial Intelligence • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2024
Open 154 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

ML Infrastructure Engineer, Training

$220k – $320k per year • Senior • 7+ years expIn office (Redwood City, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Accelerate
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Quantization
TensorRT
Triton
FSDP
NCCL
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
SLURM
HPC
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GENIEE

geniee.co.jp
GENIEE is a Tokyo advertising technology company founded in 2010 that builds supply side and demand side advertising platforms. Its systems help publishers in Japan and Southeast Asia maximise revenue from programmatic advertising, and it has acquired sales and marketing software businesses. The company operates across several Asian markets from its Tokyo base.
geniee.co.jp • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Semiconductors • Document Management • Embedded Systems • Est. 2010
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Semiconductors • Document Management • Embedded Systems • Est. 2010
Open 154 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 6 months ago

【JAPAN AI】Research Engineer, LLM modeling / English

$47k – $137k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Japanese: C1
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Fine-tuning
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Multimodal AI
NLP
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
Quantization
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Synthetic Data
Transformers
DPO
Edge AI
Google AI Studio
Function Calling
Claude Code
vLLM
Weights & Biases
Devin
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Google Workspace
Slack
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Vannevar Labs

vannevarlabs.com
Vannevar Labs is a defense technology company focused on digital intelligence to support non-kinetic missions aimed at deterring and de-escalating conflicts. The company specializes in developing advanced machine learning techniques to ensure access to mission-relevant data, building tools to counter malign influence, and enhancing maritime domain awareness using open-source and targeted data collection techniques. Vannevar Labs is dedicated to quickly iterating with national security partners to meet urgent and dynamic security challenges, positioning its solutions to address the strategic competition for legitimacy and influence in the modern geopolitical landscape.
vannevarlabs.com • HQ: Washington, United States • AI Agents • Homeland Security • National Security
HQ: Washington, United States • AI Agents • Homeland Security • National Security
Verified live · 14 min ago 6 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

$93k – $226k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
ElasticSearch
OpenSearch
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
AI Agents
Tokenization
Frontend
React.js
Tailwind CSS
DevOps
AWS
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Ambience Healthcare

ambiencehealthcare.com
Ambience Healthcare is a San Francisco company founded in 2020 that builds ambient artificial intelligence scribes for clinicians. Its system listens to a patient visit and produces structured notes, orders and billing codes directly in the electronic health record, with specialty-specific models for dozens of disciplines. It is deployed across academic medical centres and large provider groups seeking to reduce documentation time.
ambiencehealthcare.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Est. 2020
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Est. 2020
Open 168 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

Staff ML Engineer, Frontier AI

$250k – $350k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 7+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Multimodal AI
NLP
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
Synthetic Data
OpenAI
Post-training
SFT
AI Agents
Function Calling
DevOps
CI/CD
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xAI

x.ai
xAI is an American artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 with the stated goal of building models that help humans understand the universe. It develops the Grok family of large language models, distributes them through a consumer assistant, a developer API and deep integration with the X social platform, and adds image and video generation through Grok Imagine. The company runs its own Colossus supercomputer clusters in Memphis, Tennessee, is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and merged with X Corp in 2025 to combine model development with a large consumer distribution channel.
x.ai • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Multimodal AI • AI Agents • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2023
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Multimodal AI • AI Agents • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2023
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 6 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model

$440k per year • Staff+ • In office (Palo Alto, United States) • Staff
C++
Python
Rust
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
Edge AI
Post-training
AI Agents
JAX
PyTorch
Ray
Spark
Synthetic Data
SFT
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Open 697 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Software Engineer - Training/Inference (C++)

$440k per year • In office (Palo Alto, United States)
C++
Rust
AI/ML
Grok
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
Quantization
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
vLLM
Triton
DevOps
CI/CD
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Circadia Health

circadiahealth.com
Circadia Health is a medical device and digital health company specializing in contactless remote patient monitoring solutions. Powered by artificial intelligence and FDA-cleared sensor technology, its platform continuously tracks vital signs and movement patterns without requiring wearable devices or bodily contact. By combining real-time data collection with predictive analytics, the company helps post-acute care providers detect clinical deterioration early and reduce preventable rehospitalizations
circadiahealth.com • El Segundo • Los Angeles • Chicago • London • New York • Artificial Intelligence • Elderly Care • Health Care
El Segundo • Los Angeles • Chicago • London • New York • Artificial Intelligence • Elderly Care • Health Care
Open 190 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 7 months ago

ML Research Engineer

$73k – $203k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (London, United Kingdom) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Python
FastAPI
Flask
AI/ML
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Edge AI
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
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Sunday

sunday.co.th
Sunday is a Thai insurtech that underwrites and distributes insurance using its own machine learning pricing engine. It sells motor, health and employee benefit products directly through digital channels. The company also operates in Indonesia and builds insurance technology for corporate partners.
sunday.co.th • HQ: Bangkok, Thailand • Est. 2017
HQ: Bangkok, Thailand • Est. 2017
Open 202 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

ML Infrastructure Engineer

$126k – $312k per year (Estimated)In office (Redwood City, United States) • Full-Time
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Quantization
DevOps
Kubernetes
SLURM
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Inference

inference.ai
Models. Agents. GPUs. Whatever you need — we've got it. Ghost agent VMs, Maestro model routing, Engine wholesale GPUs, and Academy, on one platform.
inference.ai • San Francisco
San Francisco
Open 223 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Model Performance

$220k – $320k per year • Senior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
C#
C++
PyTorch C++
C#
.NET
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
LoRA
PyTorch
Quantization
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
vLLM
PEFT
CUDA
GPT-5
Embeddings
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Open 239 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Machine Learning Researcher

$250k – $350k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Transformers
TRL
DPO
GPT-5
Hugging Face
Megatron-LM
Post-training
SFT
Multimodal AI
DevOps
GitHub
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Open 239 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Applied Machine Learning Engineer

$220k – $320k per year • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Axolotl
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
PyTorch
Transformers
GPT-5
Hugging Face
Post-training
SFT
Multimodal AI
DevOps
GitHub
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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World Labs

worldlabs.ai
World Labs is a spatial intelligence company, building frontier models that can perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world.
worldlabs.ai • San Francisco • Data Science • Computer Vision • Geospatial Analytics
San Francisco • Data Science • Computer Vision • Geospatial Analytics
Open 246 daysTop 25% pay 9 months ago

Research Scientist (Generative Modeling)

$250k – $325k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Post-training
Pre-training
Computer Vision
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Flo Health

flo.health
Flo Health is a London company that operates the most downloaded women's health application in the world. Its app tracks menstrual cycles, pregnancy and symptoms for hundreds of millions of registered users with machine learning predictions. The company was the first European femtech business to reach a billion dollar valuation.
flo.health • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Electronic Components • Est. 2015
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Electronic Components • Est. 2015
Open 246 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 9 months ago

Senior AI/ML engineer

$92k – $190k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years expRemote/Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Senior
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Gemma
Llama
LLM
Prompt Engineering
PEFT
Anthropic
OpenAI
Structured Outputs
DSPy
Knowledge Distillation
LoRA
RLHF
Spark
DPO
Feature Store
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Kubernetes
GitHub
Analytics
A/B Testing
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