Staff ML Engineer, TIFIN
Applied AI
$190-225k
+ Equity stake
Creating companies to improve wealth outcomes
Job no longer available
Creating companies to improve wealth outcomes
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$190-225k
+ Equity stake
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make investing a more powerful driver of financial well-being.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for individuals who have worked end-to-end and have experience building generative AI products where LLMs are a core component
- Expertise with fine-tuning and reinforcement learning is critical
- 5+ years of experience (post-BS/MS) in applied AI/ML engineering
- Experience shipping generative AI products powered by LLMs: designing and implementing agentic workflows that enable autonomous AI behaviors, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art research
- Hands-on experience in various LLM fine-tuning techniques (e.g. LORA), LLM inference frameworks (e.g. vLLM), advanced RAG pipelines
- Solid expertise in reinforcement learning fine tuning methodologies and frameworks to optimize AI models
- Resilience and adaptability - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Staff ML Engineer on the Applied AI team, you will own and lead projects across our various generative AI product lines
- This is an individual contributor and technical leadership role reporting into the Head of AI
- PROJECTS
- AI Agent Orchestrator: Multi-agent systems that automate tasks and streamline workflows, driving measurable improvements in operational efficiency
- Human-in-the-Loop Collaboration: AI-powered co-pilot for advisors and other user personas, streamlining workflows across business workflows such as prospecting, conversion, onboarding, and client servicing
- Fine-Tuned Models: Purpose-tuned models for financial services to handle complex, multi-turn interactions with actionability in low-latency environments
- Seamless Legacy Tech Integration: Designed to navigate and optimize legacy systems for streamlined operations with computer use models
- Design and fine-tune open source and proprietary LLMs for various tasks such as answering questions, summarization, reasoning and planning, etc
- Build advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline including rewriting, embedding fine-tuning, hybrid search, reranking, knowledge graphs, etc
- Develop and integrate agentic workflow systems that empower AI agents to operate autonomously, enabling proactive decision-making and dynamic interactions
- Apply reinforcement learning techniques—including reinforcement learning fine tuning (e.g., PPO, DPO, GRPO)—to continuously optimize model performance
- Implement a comprehensive evaluation framework and metrics for model performance
- Deploy models into production environments and ensure low latency, reliability, and scalability
- Collaborate with product team and software engineering team to build end-to-end product systems
Our take
Increases in the range of apps available for investors of any experience level are resulting in wealth and asset managers facing rising demands for personalised financial experiences. Investors seek tools that use data analytics to facilitate these personalised insights, but this is difficult to provide without the right technology and data science.
TIFIN provides a fintech platform that uses data science and artificial intelligence to provide personalised investment experiences. The platform offers investment management advice and tools to asset managers, allowing them to transform their clients' businesses to be more efficient, profitable and future-proof.
With so many investment platforms on the market, TIFIN has made a smart decision by pulling together innovative tools into a wealth management platform, as opposed to starting a new investment platform itself. The company has experienced remarkable growth, forged strategic partnerships and successfully secured funding. It is now pursuing international expansion, beginning in India.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2024
$10m
LATE VC
May 2022
$109m
SERIES D
Total funding: $237.7m
Company benefits
- Performance linked variable compensation, including equity
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401k Retirement Account through Empower Retirement
- Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays
- Corporate Social Responsibility and volunteering opportunities
- Fully stocked office kitchens
- Access to our Chief Mindfulness Officer, including 1:1 personal coaching for executives and rising stars
- Company sponsored events like Qi Gong, Lunch & Learns, Development Workshops, Dinners, Happy Hours, and more!
- Parental leave: 12 week paid maternity, 4 week paid paternity leave
Company HQ
Boulder Junction, Boulder, CO
Leadership
Vinay Nair
(Founder, Chair & CEO)Having studied at NYU, they started working as a Fellow of Wharton Financial Institutions Center and founded 55ip, Clout, Positivly and Magnifi. They used this startup experience to found THE TIFIN GROUP in November 2018.
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