Liquid AI · 2 weeks ago
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid LevelLiquid AI is a company that builds general-purpose AI systems and partners with enterprises across various sectors. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer who will work directly on customer engagements, fine-tuning Liquid Foundation Models for enterprise deployments and ensuring quality and latency targets are met.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Fine-tune LFMs on customer data to hit quality and latency targets for on-device and edge deployments
Generate and curate training data to address specific model failure modes
Run experiments, track metrics, and iterate on solutions until customer success criteria are met
Translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical specifications
Provide analytics to commercial teams for contract structuring and pricing
Qualification
Required
Strong ML fundamentals: you understand how models learn, fail, and improve
Hands-on experience with model customization, fine-tuning, or data generation
Autonomous coding and debugging skills in Python
Proficiency with open-source ML frameworks (Hugging Face, PyTorch)
Preferred
Experience with vision or audio modalities
Prior work at a startup or forward-deployed engineering role
Contributions to open-source projects or an active Hugging Face profile
Experience with deployment/inference frameworks like vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp
Benefits
We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year
Company
Liquid AI
Build efficient general-purpose AI at every scale.
Founded in 2023
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$293.1MKey Investors
AMD VenturesOSS Capital L.P.
2024-12-13Series A· $250M
2023-12-01Seed· $37.5M
2023-05-05Seed· $5.6M
Leadership Team
Ramin Hasani
Co-founder and CEO
Mathias Lechner
Co-founder and CTO
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