Artificial Intelligence Engineer

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AI Engineer — FineTuning LLMs/VLMs (Contract)

Location: USA - Charlotte, NC - onsite

Mission: Finetune opensource LLMs/Vision Language Models (incl. “Thinking models”) on-prem for

highstakes usecases.

Responsibilities:

* Build reproducible finetuning pipelines (LoRA/QLoRA, PEFT) with secure data handling.

* Implement advanced prompt evolution (GEPA, selfplay, genetic strategies).

* Curate/augment datasets; enforce PII controls and audit trails.

* Design evaluation harnesses; measure safety, bias, robustness, and cost.

* Optimize GPU training/inference, profiling, caching, batching.

* Partner on guardrails, redteaming, and deployment readiness.

Qualifications:

* 5+ yrs ML/AI; 2+ yrs LLM/VLM; strong Python & PyTorch.

* Experience with RLHF/DPO, GEPA.

* Onprem MLOps; compliance and observability.