Palona AI
AI Modeling Engineer
Los Altos, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Los Altos, California
New York, New York - Experience
- 3+ years of industrial experience in a relevant technical domain.
About the job
Improves Palona AI’s production voice and multimodal agents through model evaluation, data development, experimentation, and deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop modeling strategies and evaluations for agent tasks, including voice, language, ordering, and multilingual behavior.
- Build representative datasets and improve prompts, context, model routing, and post-training where measurable benefits justify it.
- Ship model changes with monitoring, quality gates, staged rollouts, and rollback paths.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of industrial experience in a relevant technical domain.
- Strong machine learning foundations and experience developing or evaluating production AI systems.
- Strong Python skills and experience with modern ML tooling such as PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, or equivalent systems.
- Practical experience with LLMs, speech models, multimodal models, or agentic systems.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face
AI focus
Applied AI modeling for production voice and multimodal agents, including evaluation, dataset development, model selection and routing, prompting, post-training, speech quality, and production behavior.
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