LLM Scientist

About Qarik

Co-founded by Google Cloud Engineering leaders, Qarik is an IT Solutions company focusing on Google Cloud Platform. We’ve grown to 100 employees in less than three years and continue to attract brand-name (F1000) clients. We are an engineer-driven company where your talent is truly appreciated and maximized. Unlike the traditional model, where consultants can remain long beyond project completion, we enter our engagements with the end in mind. Core to our ethos is the ability to solve complex problems and teach clients to do the same.

In this role, you'll join our growing team focused on building Generative AI applications for document summarization, classification, and question and answer using unstructured and structured data. This team works with companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 100, that are leaders in their fields, pushing the limits of possible.

You will develop applications on Google Cloud, work with customers to understand their requirements, suggest new ideas and features to the team, improve the product further, and implement the new functionalities with a passion for quality. You will implement best practices and state-of-the-art techniques for AI and LLMs and work on research, experimentation, and implementation of novel methods.

Responsibilities

• Required hands-on experience designing and implementing applications using Large Language Models (LLM). More specifically:
• Python programming.
• Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT, LLaMA, or similar models.
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
• Advanced prompt engineering.
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Vector databases (GCP Vector Search, ChromaDB, Pinecone, pgvector, or similar).




The ideal candidate will also have experience in one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• LLM model fine-tuning.
• Embedding model fine tuning.
• Shell scripting.
• Google Cloud Vertex AI (AutoML, AI APIs, etc.).
• Classic Machine Learning (ML frameworks, neural net models development, training, tuning, serving).
• MLOps (ideally on GCP).
• Data Engineering (including SQL).

Personal Attributes

• Strong ethics.
• Strong technical aptitude.
• Engineering mindset/developer background.
• Strong sense of ownership and teamwork.
• Curious, always learning to get better.
• Enjoys working with clients.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desired Locations

• Pittsburgh, Detroit, New York, or Chicago, but open to any location (including outside of the US) as long as you are willing to overlap US East Coast morning.

Open to any location in the US as long as you are willing to overlap the US East Coast morning.

Why Qarik?

● Qarik offers a competitive employee compensation and outstanding benefits package.

● The job is fully remote with work hours and vacation flexibility for work/life balance.

● You will work on a team where people respect each other, have a shared goal of customer success, and work together instead of competing against each other or counting the lines of code or number of PRs to meet personal annual OKRs. Most of your teammates think this is the best team they have ever worked on so far in their careers.

● We are using the latest AI tech and pushing the boundaries possible, constantly learning new stuff and creating new cool things together.

Qarik is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For further information, please contact our [email protected].