Peregrine
Applied AI Engineering Lead
$225K–$320K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Feb 4, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Leads the development, evaluation, and production deployment of AI capabilities across Peregrine’s platform, while shaping AI infrastructure and strategy.
What you'll do
- Design and deploy customer-facing AI features and integrate them into product workflows.
- Guide AI/ML infrastructure, including training and inference pipelines, model serving, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Lead the Applied AI/ML team and set technical direction and responsible-deployment strategy.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated experience shipping AI-powered features into production.
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning LLMs or deep learning models and practical exposure to reinforcement learning.
- Experience designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure, and owning model evaluation, experimentation, and quality measurement.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals as a lead.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale and/or real-time data platforms.
- Background in domains where trust, explainability, and reliability matter; prior software engineering team leadership.
Pay
$225,000 — $320,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Applies and operationalizes AI in a high-consequence product; includes fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, choosing among classical ML, deep learning, and LLM approaches, AI infrastructure, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible deployment.
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