AI Engineer at remofirst

We are one of the fastest-growing private companies in the USA, recently at 85th position on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in 2025. Backed by $40+M in venture funding, we are scaling rapidly and investing heavily in AI-driven solutions to supercharge our operations.We’re hiring an AI Engineer to join our team at the intersection of engineering, AI innovation, and go-to-market execution. This role is perfect for a passionate AI practitioner who wants to see their work directly impacts new innovative products, company’s growth and leads to expanding own competencies in the field.       What You’ll Do • Implement new AI features in products • Build tools & frameworks augmenting the capabilities of LLM/VLMs • Build AI automations & AI agents • Fine-tune AI models • Fine-tune and maintain models with the HuggingFace toolkit • Monitor model's performance • Work with and guide internal teams on building custom datasets • Research & Development • Rapidly build and test AI-driven concepts — moving from proof of concept → MVP → production. • Evaluate existing solutions (both internal & external) and conduct experiments on potential improvements What We’re Looking For • Technical skills • Strong software engineering background: Python, Rust is a nice-to-have • Experience in parameter-efficient fine-tuning • Knowledge and familiarity with the tools in AI ecosystem (ML frameworks, HuggingFace, MLOps, Guardrails, AI Agents) • Understanding the theory behind neural networks and Transformer architecture • Experience • 2–5 years in AI/ML space, at least 2 years with language models • experience with other modalities (vision, audio) is a nice-to-have • Track record of going from idea → prototype → production in fast-paced environments • Previous experience in R&D department is highly valued • Traits • Curiosity and willingness to learn • Ability to take ownership, but also cooperate in small teams • Ambition to reach new levels of quality Why Join Us • Growth opportunity: This is a chance to define how AI transforms a category-leading startup — and grow your career as we scale. • As a part of our AI team you will be able to learn from other engineers and ongoing R&D projects. • Direct impact: Your work will be at the center of the most important projects in our companyCompetitive compensation and benefits