Senior LLM Engineer

DO YOU PASS THE PRE-SCREEN QUESTIONS?
· Does working on disruptive, innovative solutions get you excited to come into work in the
mornings?
· Does building solutions that impact a bigger global cause make you care about your role?
· Does working on a high-powered multi-disciplinary team get your creative juices going?
· Do you prefer working in a non-hierarchical flat environment?
· Do you prefer working in an environment where you do huddles as opposed to getting “meeting’ed to death”?
· Do you prefer an environment where your thoughts are valued based on ingenuity and not seniority?
If you’ve checked ALL of the boxes above, read further!
WHO ARE WE?
Savormetrics is an award-winning industry leader in rapid testing technology based on a sensor and Artificial Intelligence platform. Our sensing devices are used to detect quality characteristics for food and ag products. Our software applications make our devices smarter and easier to use while providing intelligence to address customers’ specific needs. At Savormetrics, we are disrupting the way food companies make critical business decisions by providing novel, predictive metrics. Our technology helps reduce food waste which provides an economic, social and environmental benefit to businesses and society. Our applications are being used by leading multinational food companies.
WHAT DOES THIS JOB ENTAIL?
• Develop the next generation of scalable and efficient large language models for diverse applications.
• Collaborate with world-class engineers and product teams to deploy real-world LLM solutions for major global organizations.
• Lead the optimization and deployment of LLM systems on both cloud platforms and edge devices.
• Innovate to improve model performance, efficiency, and adaptability for user-specific needs.
• Act as a mentor to junior team members, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. WHAT EXACTLY WOULD YOU BE DOING?
• LLM Development & Optimization: Design, train, and fine-tune large language models using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face.
• Scalable Deployment: Deploy LLMs across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and resource-constrained edge environments.
• Data Engineering: Process and analyze diverse datasets to enhance LLM performance and address real-world challenges.
• Feature Engineering: Implement advanced tokenization, embedding, and reinforcement learning techniques to optimize models.
• Algorithmic Innovation: Explore and implement cutting-edge methods such as few-shot learning, model distillation, and zero-shot inference.
• System Integration: Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to integrate LLMs into larger systems, ensuring seamless performance and functionality.
• Testing & Debugging: Rigorously test and debug models and pipelines to ensure production- ready performance.
• Customer Interaction: Work closely with business teams to refine user requirements and translate them into scalable LLM solutions.
WHAT EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE?
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field—or an exceptional portfolio of LLM projects.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying large-scale LLM systems.
• Proficiency in Python and libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, or ONNX.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools like Docker. • Expertise in transformer architectures (e.g., BERT, GPT, T5).
• Experience in optimizing models for performance, memory efficiency, and latency.
• Solid understanding of NLP techniques such as text classification, summarization, and language translation.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and scalable pipelines.
• Appreciation for clean, well-documented code and agile development practices.
• Bonus Points: Experience with multi-modal models, knowledge graph integration, or generative AI applications.
SAVORMETRICS CORE VALUES YOU MUST BELIEVE IN TO BE PART OF OUR TEAM!

· We Make Results Not Excuses!
· Just Get it Done!
· You miss 100% of the Shots You Don’t Take!
· Savormetrics is a Family, We Care for Each Other! · We All Lead!
· Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!
· Nothing is Impossible!
· Aim High, Deliver Higher!
· Deliver Early, Deliver Extra!
Excited? Then send us your resume at [email protected]