AI Research Engineer — Production-Ready LLMs

WisdomAI, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 252,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

WisdomAI, Inc. in San Mateo is seeking exceptional Research Engineers who translate cutting-edge AI research into production systems for enterprise customers. You will design experiments, develop new approaches, and ship systems that directly affect customer experience.

We value rigorous experimentation, strong software engineering, and the ability to balance research with production impact, enabling trusted, context-rich analytics for business teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in applied ML/NLP/AI research and shipping production AI systems.
• Master's degree in CS/ML/AI/NLP; PhD is a strong plus.
• Deep experience with modern LLMs and agent architectures.
• Strong software engineering with production-quality Python and AI frameworks.
• Design rigorous evaluation frameworks and data-driven decisions balancing quality, latency, cost, reliability.
• Ability to improve model cost/quality via retrieval optimization, fine-tuning, distillation, inference optimization, agent design.

Responsibilities

• Design and run rigorous experiments, including ablations, benchmarking, and error analysis, to improve NL-to-SQL generation, retrieval, ranking, and agentic reasoning.
• Advance multi-turn conversational understanding through improved context retention, entity resolution, conversational memory, and intelligent clarification strategies.
• Build robust evaluation frameworks, including automated benchmarks, regression suites, and LLM-as-a-judge methodologies to measure and improve model quality.
• Prototype, validate, and productionize ML techniques, including fine-tuning, distillation, retrieval optimization, and agent architectures.
• Evaluate emerging foundation models and AI research, rapidly translating promising advances into production experiments.
• Contribute to the broader AI community through technical reports, or conference talks.

Skills

ML/NLP experience

Master's degree

PhD a plus

LLMs & agents

Python proficiency

Evaluation frameworks

Data-driven decisions

Education

Master's degree in CS/ML/AI/NLP

PhD

Tools

Python

AI frameworks

Production systems

Job description

WisdomAI, Inc. in San Mateo is seeking exceptional Research Engineers who translate cutting-edge AI research into production systems for enterprise customers. You will design experiments, develop new approaches, and ship systems that directly affect customer experience.

We value rigorous experimentation, strong software engineering, and the ability to balance research with production impact, enabling trusted, context-rich analytics for business teams.