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AI Phone - Applied ML / Model Engineer

Seoul, Korea · Seoul, South Korea

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Location type: Hybrid
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Employment type: Full-time
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What you’ll work on

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  • Evaluate open-weight foundation models against target phone use cases

  • Fine-tune models with SFT, LoRA/QLoRA and other lightweight methods

  • Improve intent recognition, instruction following, and tool calling

  • Build synthetic datasets for phone-specific workflows

  • Build evaluation datasets and benchmarks for model quality and reliability

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Evaluate existing foundation models (e.g. Qwen, Llama, Gemma and other suitable open-weight models) against our target phone use cases.
Experiment with SFT, LoRA/QLoRA and other lightweight fine-tuning techniques for specific use cases.
Improve model performance for intent recognition, instruction following, tool calling, structured outputs, and multi-step task execution.
Explore synthetic data generation and dataset construction for phone-specific workflows.
Build evaluation datasets and benchmarks to measure model quality, reliability, and task completion.

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

  • Practical experience working with LLMs and open-weight models.
  • Experience with agentic systems, function calling, and tool-use training.
  • Experience with model fine-tuning, such as SFT, LoRA/QLoRA, and preferably RL or preference optimization.
  • Experience with synthetic data generation and preference datasets.
  • Experience with PyTorch and common ML tooling.
  • Experience with model distillation and smaller language models.
Qualification wording
Practical experience working with LLMs and open-weight models.
Experience with agentic systems, function calling, and tool-use training.
Experience with model fine-tuning, such as SFT, LoRA/QLoRA, and preferably RL or preference optimization.
Experience with synthetic data generation and preference datasets.
Experience with PyTorch and common ML tooling.
Experience with model distillation and smaller language models.
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Bjak is hiring

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- Experience with model fine-tuning, such as SFT, LoRA/QLoRA, and preferably RL or preference optimization. - Experience with PyTorch and common ML tooling. - Understanding of LLM evaluation, benchmarking, and dataset preparation.

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  6. This jobUp 3 days so far, first seen Nov 4

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Demand for ML Engineer roles

New ML Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 12% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.

Weekly new ML Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of October 26. The fewest in a week was 624, the most 1,094, and the latest week had 870.
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About the role

We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.

Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.

A data scientist often works out which model to build; an ML engineer makes it run reliably in production.

US government figures for computer and information research scientists

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$140,300
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for ML engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information research scientists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1221.

Job description

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About

We are reimagining the phone. AI phones need to be proactive, intuitive, intelligent and low cost. This is a mission critical for rest of the world to adopt intelligence.

There are over 5 billion people using everyday applications such as email, messaging, notes, tasks, and calendars, yet most are not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications and devices that bring intelligence into daily conversations, coordination and workflows, with minimal prompting.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate existing foundation models (e.g. Qwen, Llama, Gemma and other suitable open-weight models) against our target phone use cases.

  • Identify which capabilities can be handled by existing models and where additional model adaptation or fine-tuning is needed.

  • Experiment with SFT, LoRA/QLoRA and other lightweight fine-tuning techniques for specific use cases.

  • Improve model performance for intent recognition, instruction following, tool calling, structured outputs, and multi-step task execution.

  • Explore synthetic data generation and dataset construction for phone-specific workflows.

  • Build evaluation datasets and benchmarks to measure model quality, reliability, and task completion.

  • Compare different models and approaches, including local versus cloud inference.

  • Work closely with the Agent Runtime team to improve model performance in actual agent workflows.

Requirements

  • Strong background in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or NLP.

  • Practical experience working with LLMs and open-weight models.

  • Experience with model fine-tuning, such as SFT, LoRA/QLoRA, and preferably RL or preference optimization.

  • Experience with PyTorch and common ML tooling.

  • Understanding of LLM evaluation, benchmarking, and dataset preparation.

  • Ability to run experiments, analyze model failures, and translate findings into measurable improvements.

Nice to have

  • Experience with agentic systems, function calling, and tool-use training.

  • Experience with synthetic data generation and preference datasets.

  • Experience with model distillation and smaller language models.

  • Experience with deploying models in production environments.

 
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