Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)