Overview
Baseplate is hiring a founding engineer! We're looking for a talented and motivated engineer to help build the future of work with AI. As a founding engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building core technology that powers our product. You will work closely with the founding team in our New York office to bring LLM powered tools to every business.
The Founding Engineer - AI/ML will help Baseplate's customers train LLMs (primarily fine tuning pre-trained models) and apply them. This will role will encompass the data pipeline, training pipeline, model hosting, and application.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with a focus on machine learning and NLP.
- Hands-on experience working with large language models like GPT, LLAMA, BERT, or Transformer-based architectures.
- Proficiency in Python
- Strong knowledge of NLP techniques, including tokenization, language modeling, and embeddings.
- Experience with distributed training and optimization techniques for large-scale machine learning models.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., GCP (preferred), AWS) and their machine learning offerings.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and propose innovative solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team.