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Remote Senior AI Engineer

at January

Posted 17 hours ago 2 applied

Description:

  • January AI is a precision health company that combines continuous glucose monitoring with heart rate, sleep, activity, and food tracking to provide real-time insights into personal metabolic health.
  • The company aims to help individuals understand how their bodies metabolize food and make simple changes to avoid serious health issues.
  • As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and productionizing advanced AI systems, including designing, tuning, and deploying models that translate complex health data into actionable insights.
  • You will innovate in retrieval and reasoning by developing sophisticated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines that fuse structured and unstructured data for deep reasoning over user health profiles.
  • The role involves fine-tuning and customizing state-of-the-art language and multi-modal models on proprietary datasets to enhance accuracy and safety for health applications.
  • You will build and evaluate AI agents capable of complex reasoning to guide users toward better health outcomes.
  • Establishing best practices for the entire machine learning lifecycle, including data preprocessing, model evaluation, and performance monitoring, will be part of your responsibilities.
  • You will stay updated with AI research and translate cutting-edge techniques into product innovation.

Requirements:

  • A BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.
  • You must have 4+ years of professional experience in building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment.
  • High proficiency in Python and its core machine learning libraries, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, and scikit-learn, is necessary.
  • You should have 1-2 years of hands-on experience architecting solutions with Large Language Models (LLMs), including direct experience with models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or open-source alternatives.
  • Proven experience with vector databases and a strong understanding of semantic search, retrieval, and ranking principles is required.
  • A track record of working with LLMs and building and optimizing RAG systems from first principles is essential.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including proficiency with SQL databases and experience in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP), are needed.
  • A strong quantitative background in evaluating ML models, including defining novel metrics, statistical validation, and designing A/B tests for product settings, is required.

Benefits:

  • January AI offers a competitive salary and equity packages.
  • Employees benefit from a 401k plan with corporate matching.
  • Health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance are provided.
  • Commuter benefits are also included.
  • The base salary will depend on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.