Versant Media · 6 hours ago
AI/ML Engineer
Orlando, FL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expVersant Media is a leading force in news, sports, and entertainment, combining content, technology, and services to connect audiences. They are seeking an AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy intelligent systems utilizing generative AI and large language models, working collaboratively with various engineering teams to create production-ready applications.
BroadcastingInformation TechnologyMedia and Entertainment
Responsibilities
Design and implement LLM-powered applications, including chatbots, agents, and workflow automation tools
Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that combine proprietary data with foundation models
Fine-tune, adapt, or prompt-engineer LLMs for domain-specific use cases
Build production-grade inference services and optimize them for performance and cost
Integrate GenAI systems into larger platform architectures alongside backend and frontend engineers
Implement guardrails, evaluation metrics, and monitoring for LLM behavior, safety, and quality
Stay ahead of advances in generative AI, assessing opportunities to apply emerging techniques pragmatically
Document methods, share learnings, and mentor engineers on applied LLM/GenAI practices
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on applied AI
Hands-on expertise with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering, with samples
Experience building RAG pipelines and integrating models into real-world systems
Proficiency with Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face)
Experience deploying AI systems into production with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Familiarity with MLOps practices for LLMs (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, Weights & Biases)
Strong understanding of observability and evaluation for generative systems (bias, drift, hallucinations)
Preferred
Experience with fine-tuning, instruction tuning, or RLHF
Experience with other large entertainment focused platforms, centered around being consumer-facing at a large scale
Familiarity and hands-on exposure with MCP Servers and highly accessible and available API platforms
Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale
Cloud-native, global scaling experience (AWS and their various tool offerings)
Understanding of the mindset of 'Fail Fast, Learn Fast' and continuous improvement
Benefits
Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Company
Versant Media
Versant Media is a media company that offers television and digital entertainment services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Steve Arocho
Vice President Corporate Communications
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