TIFIN · 11 hours ago
Staff ML Engineer, Applied AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $225K/yr
5+ years expTIFIN builds AI-powered financial technology that personalizes and improves financial advice across various sectors. As a Staff ML Engineer on the Applied AI team, you will lead projects focusing on generative AI products, particularly involving large language models (LLMs).
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Financial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Design and fine-tune open source and proprietary LLMs for various tasks such as answering questions, summarization, reasoning and planning, etc
Build advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline including rewriting, embedding fine-tuning, hybrid search, reranking, knowledge graphs, etc
Experience shipping generative AI products powered by LLMs: designing and implementing agentic workflows and multi-agent systems that enable autonomous AI behaviors, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art research
Apply reinforcement learning techniques—including reinforcement learning fine tuning (e.g., PPO, DPO, GRPO)—to continuously optimize model performance
Implement a comprehensive evaluation framework and metrics for model performance
Deploy models into production environments and ensure low latency, reliability, and scalability
Collaborate with product team and software engineering team to build end-to-end product systems
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience (post-BS/MS) in applied AI/ML engineering
Experience shipping generative AI products powered by LLMs: designing and implementing agentic workflows that enable autonomous AI behaviors, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art research
Hands-on experience in various LLM fine-tuning techniques (e.g. LORA), LLM inference frameworks (e.g. vLLM), advanced RAG pipelines
Solid expertise in reinforcement learning fine tuning methodologies and frameworks to optimize AI models
Resilience and adaptability - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits
Flexible PTO
Company
TIFIN
TIFIN is an AI platform that develops fintech solutions focused on tailoring investment experiences to individual needs.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$226.32MKey Investors
SEI,SEI VenturesMotive PartnersHamilton Lane
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $3M
2024-02-21Corporate Round· $10M
2023-10-17Debt Financing· $7.65M
Leadership Team
Vinay Nair
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Andrew Dahlinghaus
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
2025-12-08
2025-10-27
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