17h ago

Applied AI Researcher

New York City

$175k-$275k / yearest.

full-timemidfinance

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll join a profitable, bootstrapped startup building LLM-powered tools for investment research. You'll shape product direction and translate business needs into applied ML/NLP solutions.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Translate product needs into applied ML/NLP solutions through rapid prototyping
  • Develop and optimize retrieval, search, and ranking algorithms
  • Fine-tune SLMs/LLMs for high-accuracy, low-latency tasks
  • Apply alignment techniques like DPO to improve user experience

📋 Requirements

  • Based in NYC
  • NLP/ML research experience with RAG, LLMs, and GenAI
  • Proven experience building production ML systems for search/IR
  • Strong communication skills for a client-facing role

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with structured outputs from LLMs
  • Experience working with senior stakeholders

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏋️ Gym membership
  • 👨‍🍳 In-office cook
  • 🏖️ Summers working in Greece by the beach
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