Staff AI Engineer - LLM Expert

Interface AI
Full-time
San Jose/ San Francisco Bay Area
$200,000 - $240,000
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

Interface AI is building a universal banking assistant powered by a proprietary BankGPT platform. They are seeking a Staff Engineer – Core AI to design, experiment, and scale the next generation of LLM-powered multi-agent systems that enable intelligent, secure, and compliant automation for financial institutions.

Responsibilities

  • Building fine-tuning pipelines
  • Exploring open-weight models
  • Benchmarking model performance
  • Driving high-throughput, low-latency inference strategies
  • Designing data-safe pipelines with encryption
  • Implementing automated PII detection and masking
  • Applying Reinforcement Learning (RLHF/RLAIF)
  • Exploring speech model architectures (ASR/TTS)
  • Rapidly prototyping emerging models
  • Collaborating with research and backend teams
  • Create fine-tuning workflows using LoRA, PEFT, and instruction-tuning pipelines
  • Manage large-scale training datasets
  • Build self-evolving prompt evaluation loops
  • Optimize model inference through quantization, batching, caching
  • Develop novel encryption and key management techniques
  • Implement policy layers that enforce safety
  • Develop and optimize speech-to-speech pipelines
  • Establish evaluation harnesses
  • Explore the latest advancements in open-source LLMs and reinforcement learning

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience working with transformer architectures and LLM fine-tuning
  • Hands-on experience with RLHF/RLAIF
  • Deep knowledge of auto-prompting
  • Experience improving throughput, quantization, and token efficiency
  • Knowledge of PII masking, data encryption, and secure model pipelines
  • Experience with PyTorch, Transformers, Deep Speed, Hugging Face, LangChain, or vLLM

Benefits

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