Staff Software Engineer (LLMs)

About the Job
AI71 is a fast-growing UAE-based startup dedicated to bringing the benefits of Generative AI (GenAI) to the world. This role as a Staff Software Engineer (LLMs) in Abu Dhabi will involve contributing to the development of industry-leading AI software leveraging cutting-edge research breakthroughs. You will be designing, implementing, launching, and landing code in a dynamic environment, with responsibilities that span both platform and product development.

About the Role
As a software engineer, your tasks will include:

• Designing and implementing advanced language model-powered solutions to enhance task efficiency and productivity.
• Enhancing API and interface performance to ensure scalability and user-friendly design.
• Tailoring user experiences for accessibility and seamless integration into daily workflows.
• Partnering with research teams to refine interfaces based on user feedback and real-world usage data.
• Developing and deploying systems for monitoring model performance, behavior, and alignment with user requirements.
• Pioneering innovative human-AI interaction paradigms that transform the collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.

Required Qualifications
To be considered for this role, candidates must possess:

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 4 years of experience with AI, data structures, or algorithms (mandatory).
• Hands-on experience in fine-tuning and deploying generative LLMs utilizing TensorFlow, XLA/MLIR, JAX, and PyTorch frameworks (mandatory).
• Experience developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models integrated with vector databases to power conversational AI products (mandatory).
• Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models (mandatory).
• Excellent in-depth hands-on understanding of Natural Language Processing (NLP), LLM, MLLM, Generative AI, and RAG workflows (mandatory).

Note: Only candidates with the mandatory experience in bold will be considered.