Sanas
Member of Technical Staff, LLM Post-Training, Applied
Palo Alto, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building and deploying machine-learning-based services in production.
About the job
Leads end-to-end post-training, evaluation, and deployment of open-source text language models for customer products and high-stakes on-premise environments.
What you'll do
- Lead instruction tuning, preference tuning, and model alignment; own customer projects from requirements and data generation through training, evaluation, and delivery.
- Customize open-source models and optimize inference for production efficiency, reliability, and robustness.
- Provide technical mentorship and develop reusable tooling and workflows.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and deploying machine-learning-based services in production.
- Hands-on experience with data generation and evaluation for LLM post-training, and text-specific post-training workflows.
- Experience training or fine-tuning models using SFT, instruction tuning, RLHF, DPO, or similar preference alignment methods.
- Experience on Agentic AI; proficiency with the open-source ML ecosystem (Hugging Face, PyTorch) and modern model architectures.
Nice to have
- Experience optimizing inference, including on-premise deployments, or improving deployed-model performance and scalability.
- Experience with inference optimization frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT), Kubernetes, or external-customer applied ML delivery.
Tools
Hugging Face, PyTorch, SFT, RLHF, DPO, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT
AI focus
Applied LLM post-training, including data generation, instruction and preference tuning, alignment, evaluation, and inference optimization for production deployments.
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