TraceLink · 1 day ago
Staff/Senior Applied Scientist, AI/GenAI & ML Systems
Wilmington, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $189K/yrTraceLink is a leader in providing software solutions to the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on digitizing supply chains for better compliance and visibility. The Staff/Senior Applied Scientist will lead the design and deployment of production-grade GenAI and ML systems, emphasizing hands-on development and optimization of multi-agent architectures in cloud environments.
Developer PlatformSaaSSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Hands-on ownership of building and shipping multi-agent systems (planner/executor, tool-using agents, supervisor patterns, routing, role-based agents) from prototype to production
Write production-quality code for agent orchestration, tool integration, memory/state design, and context management
Lead context engineering strategies for multi-agent coordination: prompt design, state persistence, agent handoffs, grounding, constraints, and safety controls
Hands-on fine-tune and deploy SLM models for production usage: dataset creation, training workflows, evaluation, and inference serving
Build Advanced RAG pipelines end-to-end, including semantic search, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, and cross-encoder reranking
Implement evaluation frameworks for multi-agent systems covering quality, latency, cost, robustness, and failure mode detection
Collaborate with platform and product engineering to ensure solutions are cloud-native, secure, observable, and scalable (monitoring, logging, CI/CD)
Optimize for cost and latency via model routing, caching, compression strategies, and inference efficiency improvements
Mentor peers through code reviews, architecture sessions, and hands-on technical leadership
Qualification
Required
Context engineering for complex multi-agent systems (prompt orchestration, tool calling, memory/state design, routing, constraint handling)
Fine-tuning of SLMs and delivering them to production (training strategies, validation, deployment, monitoring, rollback readiness)
Experience with Advanced RAG, semantic search, embeddings, and cross-encoders (retrieval tuning, chunking strategies, query rewriting/planning, reranking)
Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete architectures, metrics, and deliverables
Hands-on inference optimization experience: quantization, distillation, batching, caching, model routing, speculative decoding
Experience building retrieval systems at scale using vector DBs and search stacks
Comfort working across the full lifecycle: research → prototype → A/B test → production hardening
Preferred
Familiarity with enterprise constraints: privacy, security, data governance, permissions, auditability
Experience designing and running GenAI observability: traces, prompt/versioning, tool call logging, feedback loops
Strong ability to implement production-quality systems in Python (and/or adjacent backend languages)
Proven experience deploying GenAI/ML systems in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Experience with scalable inference and service operations: containers, APIs, observability, reliability practices
MS/PhD in CS/ML/NLP/Stats (or equivalent applied experience building production systems)
Company
TraceLink
TraceLink is a SaaS network creation platform company that connects people, companies, systems and processes, on a network for greater good.
Founded in 2009
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$233.86MKey Investors
GeorgianGoldman Sachs Growth EquityVolition Capital
2018-08-21Series D· $93M
2018-06-09Series D· $60M
2016-11-30Series C· $51.5M
Leadership Team
Shabbir Dahod
President and CEO
Michael Mozzer
Chief Financial Officer
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