LLM Engineer

TIFIN is seeking a highly skilled and experienced LLM Engineer to join our innovative, remote-first team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of personalised financial experiences by leveraging your expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. As an early-stage startup, we're looking for an independent contributor and leader who is ready to build systems from the ground up and own outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to craft intuitive and engaging conversational AI experiences for our users.
• Work autonomously to deliver high-quality features, taking full ownership of project outcomes.
• Analyse and leverage our extensive data to create highly personalised experiences.
• Fine-tune LLMs with proprietary data to enhance model performance and relevance for our specific use cases.
• Implement various RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) approaches to augment LLMs with relevant, up-to-date, and domain-specific information.
• Act as both a technical leader and an individual contributor, embodying the startup mentality of doing "whatever it takes" to succeed.
• Design and set up new workflows, systems, and tools from scratch, with support from the wider team.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in building and deploying conversational bots.
• Hands-on experience with fine-tuning machine learning models, specifically LLMs.
• Proficiency in utilising RAG-based approaches for LLM augmentation.
• A strong understanding of financial concepts and investing is a significant plus, though not strictly required.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment, with a proactive and problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly.