Principal AI Research Engineer

📋 Description Lead research on LLMs, ASR, retrieval systems, and scalable production capabilities. Define and drive the research roadmap for core AI capabilities. Design and deploy production-grade models and pipelines. Establish evaluation frameworks for model performance and safety. Collaborate with product, platform, and ML engineering teams to ship features. Mentor engineers and set technical standards across the AI org. 🎯 Requirements Degree in CS/ML or equivalent; typically 6+ years in production ML/AI. Deep learning expertise with LLMs, transformers, plus event in speech/NLP/IR/multimodal modeling. Track record of taking research to deployed impact. Python proficiency and strong experience with PyTorch; solid software fundamentals. Hands-on experience training/serving large models; distributed training and efficient inference. Strong technical leadership and effective communication across teams. 🎁 Benefits Competitive compensation, equity, comprehensive benefits. Work on enterprise-scale AI problems with measurable impact. Collaborative, high-caliber team and pragmatic, production-focused execution.