Applied AI/ML Engineer

Extend

$130K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or related fields
  • Proficiency in building AI-driven applications and document processing systems
  • Strong understanding of LLM techniques and model optimization
  • Experience with QA systems and performance evaluation in production
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a startup environment with direct customer interaction

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance document processing infrastructure using advanced AI techniques
  • Design and deploy models for effective document layout awareness
  • Monitor model performance and implement experiments for continuous improvement
  • Own significant areas of product and engineering as a founding team member
  • Collaborate closely with leadership to shape product direction and team growth

Benefits

  • 90% health insurance premium coverage
  • Relocation assistance for out-of-state candidates
  • Unlimited PTO policy for work-life balance
  • Daily lunch and snacks provided, including dinner for late hours
  • No restrictions on tooling access to maximize productivity
  • Investment in learning and development for career growth
Full Job Description
As an AI Engineer at Extend, you'll be responsible for building state-of-the-art document processing infrastructure and applied AI product features. The work you do will impact every single customer across the millions of documents that our system ingests and processes every month.

We're looking to hire engineers who think creatively about problems, keep up to date on the latest in AI research, push for real-world customer impact (not only theory), and are excited about helping businesses tackle one of their most painful problems with AI.

Impact

We're powering mission-critical data processing at companies where if we get things wrong, there are real world impacts (e.g. missed payments, people can't move into homes on time).

Here's a few of the complex problems you'll be working on:
  • Building a QA Agent to flag low confidence results
  • Deploy an optimizer agent in a loop that improves document performance in the background
  • Creating multimodal models for document layout awareness
  • Novel chunking strategies for handling long documents
  • Building data pipelines and evaluating model performance
  • Building a self-correcting system that automatically gets better over time
Role
  • Design novel LLM techniques for increasing the complexity of use cases and data streams that Extend can be applied to
  • Monitor existing models in production, understand what's working well (and what isn't), and run experiments to solve those issues
  • Have complete ownership over the work you do - as a founding team member, you'll have the opportunity to truly own large areas of product and engineering and have direct relationship with customers.
  • Work directly with the CEO, CTO, and other founding members and help build out our team.
Benefits

Beyond the below, we care deeply about each of our candidates on a personal level. We take the time to understand your needs to craft a package designed for you:
  • Insurance - 90% health insurance premium coverage
  • Relocation - for candidates based outside of NYC
  • Unlimited PTO policy - we trust everyone like owners, take what you need
  • Daily lunch & snacks covered (plus dinner if you're in the office late) - you'll never go hungry and you help pick the snacks
  • Unlimited token / tooling access - no handicaps on your productivity
  • Learning and development investment - we invest heavily in our team and support your growth

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