Liquid AI · 1 day 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 for various deployment targets. The role involves hands-on technical work, focusing on fine-tuning Liquid Foundation Models for enterprise deployments while ensuring quality and latency targets are met.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyFoundational AIGenerative AIMachine 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 until customer success criteria are met
Translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical specifications
Provide analytics to commercial teams for contract structuring and pricing
Work across text, vision, and audio modalities as customer needs require
Qualification
Required
Hands-on fine-tuning experience with modern LLMs (last 12-18 months): LoRA, PEFT, DPO, instruction tuning, or similar
Strong ML fundamentals: you understand how models learn, fail, and improve
Experience generating or curating training data to address model gaps
Autonomous coding and debugging skills in Python and PyTorch
Proficiency with open-source ML ecosystem (Hugging Face transformers, datasets, accelerate)
Preferred
Experience delivering ML work to external customers with measurable outcomes
Experience with inference optimization (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT, llama.cpp)
Post-training experience: RLHF, DPO, reward modeling
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
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$293.1MKey Investors
AMD VenturesOSS Capital L.P.,Stephen Pagliuca,The Pags GroupOSS 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
Recent News
2025-12-06
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2025-11-15
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