Title
Software Engineer III
Client
Fortune 25 Company
Location
Remote, Within the United States
Schedule
Monday – Friday
Type
Full-time, Ongoing W2, 12-Month Contract, New Role & Possible Extensions
Pay Rate
$97.50, with overtime pay and a half
Benefits
3 Weeks PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Life Insurance, Disability Coverage, Holidays Off but Unpaid
Summary
Our client is seeking an AI Engineer to help build and scale next-generation multimodal AI systems. This role focuses on developing data engines and evaluation platforms that transform raw multi-format data into high-quality benchmarks used to advance large-scale AI models.
This position is ideal for an engineer with strong experience in machine learning systems, dataset development, and model evaluation who thrives in research-driven and highly technical environments.
The AI Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams of researchers and engineers to design datasets, fine-tune models, and build tools that support large-scale AI training and evaluation workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Dataset Development
- Design and curate datasets for training and evaluating multimodal models (image, video, audio, and text data)
- Develop methods to bootstrap, augment, and rebalance datasets using machine learning models
- Ensure high-quality data pipelines that support large-scale model training
Model Evaluation & Optimization
- Run model evaluations and implement evaluation metrics for multimodal systems
- Fine-tune models using labeled datasets to improve performance and accuracy
- Analyze model outputs to improve training data and benchmarking processes
Platform & Tool Development
- Build and deploy internal tools and annotation task UIs using React and TypeScript
- Develop scalable data ingestion pipelines from warehouses, storage systems, and flat files
- Support high-volume data processing and system optimization
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with research and engineering teams to align on model development and evaluation needs
- Translate research requirements into scalable engineering solutions
- Contribute to the development of production-ready AI systems
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in machine learning, data engineering, or AI systems development
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience working with multimodal data (image, video, audio, and text)
- Strong programming experience in Python or similar languages
- Experience with machine learning model training and evaluation workflows
- Strong understanding of data pipelines and large-scale data processing
- Experience building frontend tools using React and TypeScript
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- Experience with large language models (LLMs) or multimodal models (MLLMs)
- Familiarity with dataset annotation workflows and tooling
- Experience with distributed systems or large-scale compute environments
- Background in research-driven or experimental AI environments
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