Founding AI/ML Engineer - Prediction Platform, Remote

Higher Ground Labs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightning Rod Labs in a remote-first setting is building AI systems that predict real-world outcomes at scale. You will build platforms for training and serving prediction agents on multi-node GPU clusters, turning unstructured data into actionable learning signals.

We seek Python experts with LLM fine-tuning experience, a track record of shipping impactful systems, and a strong ownership mindset. You’ll operate with autonomy across cloud platforms and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Excellent Python skills and experience fine‑tuning LLMs.
• Track record of shipping impactful systems.
• Ownership mindset and autonomy.
• Proof of skill — GitHub, portfolio, papers, or demos.
• Scale experience: millions of samples and large distributed GPU clusters.
• Technical range: rapid analysis in notebooks to robust pipelines.
• Data intuition: statistics, probability, data hygiene, ML best practices.
• Cloud fluency across modalities and platforms (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Build cutting-edge systems that teach AI real‑world reasoning at scale.
• Create and evolve infrastructure for training and serving prediction agents.
• Scale training and inference on large multi-node GPU clusters.
• Transform messy, unstructured streams into training signals.
• Design novel objectives, rewards, and calibration methods for causal factors.
• Experiment, optimize the training framework, and demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art results.
• Own delivery end‑to‑end from data collection to deployment.

Job description

Lightning Rod Labs in a remote-first setting is building AI systems that predict real-world outcomes at scale. You will build platforms for training and serving prediction agents on multi-node GPU clusters, turning unstructured data into actionable learning signals.

We seek Python experts with LLM fine-tuning experience, a track record of shipping impactful systems, and a strong ownership mindset. You’ll operate with autonomy across cloud platforms and data pipelines.