AI Research Engineer
You will research emerging model architectures, reasoning strategies, and local deployment techniques to expand studio AI capabilities.
What you'll work with.
As a Senior AI Research Engineer at TheWebVale, you will investigate modern advancements in machine learning and language models. You will explore small language models, reasoning distillation, vision-language systems, and quantization techniques to unlock practical advantages for client products. You will partner directly with our founder to translate research breakthroughs into production prototypes in two-to-three week cycles. You will write rigorous technical analyses, benchmark open models, and guide studio technology adoption.
Your day to day.
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Evaluate newly released open-weight models including Llama, Mistral, and Qwen architectures.
Benchmark model speed, VRAM footprint, and reasoning accuracy across hardware setups.
Implement quantization techniques (AWQ, GGUF, EXL2) to run models on cost-effective servers.
Develop working proof-of-concept prototypes to validate novel AI workflows for clients.
Author concise technical briefs detailing performance characteristics and deployment costs.
Mentor engineering teammates on model fine-tuning fundamentals and prompt evaluation.
What we look for.
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Have 5+ years of software engineering or applied machine learning research experience.
Demonstrate deep understanding of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and weights.
Show strong hands-on proficiency in Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and CUDA.
Exhibit practical experience running local inference with llama.cpp, vLLM, or Ollama.
Possess a strong scientific mindset with disciplined benchmarking and documentation habits.
Explain complex machine learning discoveries in accessible terms to product builders.
What you get.
Three steps, no tricks.
- 1
Intro chat
A short call about what you want to work on and how you like to work.
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Work review
Walk us through projects, code or designs you are proud of.
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Paid task
A small paid task or pairing session, so both sides see the fit.
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