Senior AI Engineer, Post-Training

Carta

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CANew York, NY
Salary
$242,250–$285,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Above market

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This role $264k
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About Carta

Carta is an equity management platform that helps private companies, investors, and employees manage equity, cap tables, 409A valuations, and fund administration, streamlining the complexities of startup ownership. Industry: Financial Technology & Equity Management

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TL;DR · Senior AI Engineer, Post-Training

As a Senior AI Engineer, Post-Training, you will join the ML Engineering team within Carta Law to develop autonomous AI agents and specialized legal models. You will have end-to-end ownership of the model development lifecycle, specifically post-training open-weight language models on proprietary legal data. Your daily responsibilities include designing training objectives, building data pipelines with human feedback loops, and implementing supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and reinforcement learning. You will also build production systems including model serving, evaluation pipelines, and agentic infrastructure. To succeed, you must possess deep expertise in PyTorch or equivalent frameworks, distributed training, and the ability to translate complex legal workflows into technical requirements. This role focuses on solving document intelligence and contract workflow challenges by integrating advanced model-centric projects with practical product engineering to improve capabilities for legal professionals.

What does a AI Engineer earn in California?

Median $246150 from 78 postings across 12 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Post-train open-weight language models on proprietary legal data using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
  • Manage the end-to-end model development lifecycle including data selection, objective design, training, and evaluation.
  • Build and improve high-quality training datasets and automated data pipelines with human feedback loops.
  • Maintain and optimize the training stack to ensure reliable experiments on managed or self-hosted infrastructure.
  • Develop and operate production systems for model serving, agentic workflows, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Collaborate with product engineers to decide between model improvements and system-level enhancements like tools and context.
  • Translate complex legal workflows into technical requirements for model training and data strategy.

What we're looking for

  • Experience with LLM post-training using PyTorch or equivalent frameworks.
  • Experience in model development and post-training work in applied settings that shipped to real users.
  • Ability to build and operate production systems including model serving, agents, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Proficiency in training techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and reinforcement learning.
  • Ability to develop training datasets and data pipelines involving labeling guidance and human feedback loops.
  • Knowledge of distributed training to diagnose and optimize training runs on managed or self-hosted infrastructure.
  • Ability to translate complex domain expert workflows into model, data, and evaluation decisions.

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