Applied AI Research Engineer

Gimlet Labs, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Gimlet Labs is seeking a Member of Technical Staff focused on Applied AI Research in San Francisco to advance AI workloads from concept to production. You will explore novel techniques, design experiments, and translate promising ideas into scalable software.

You will work across research and engineering to build prototypes and deliver production-quality code, applying methods such as fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and optimized inference across hardware platforms.

Qualifications

• Reading and evaluating new AI research to inform experiments.
• Designing and running experiments to test ideas.
• Translating promising ideas into production-ready code.
• Experience applying AI/ML to practical engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Study novel AI approaches and prototype them.
• Build prototypes and write production-quality code.
• Collaborate across research and engineering to deploy solutions.
• Evaluate techniques like fine-tuning and knowledge distillation.

Skills

Exploratory research

Production engineering

Python

C++

Experiment design

Applied ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

vLLM

ONNX

Job description

Gimlet Labs is seeking a Member of Technical Staff focused on Applied AI Research in San Francisco to advance AI workloads from concept to production. You will explore novel techniques, design experiments, and translate promising ideas into scalable software.

You will work across research and engineering to build prototypes and deliver production-quality code, applying methods such as fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and optimized inference across hardware platforms.