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FERMÀT

AI/ML Engineer

FERMÀT, San Francisco

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Overview

We are seeking a product-minded Software Engineer to help build Pierre, FERMÀT’s AI Agent, into a production-grade intelligence engine that powers personalization, automation, and operational insights across our commerce platform. You will design and build LLM-powered features end-to-end: orchestration (tools/agents/function-calling), retrieval, evaluations and productionization (APIs, observability, cost/latency).

What You’ll Work On

  • Take AI products to market : prototype quickly, instrument, A/B test, and iterate based on quality, conversion impact, latency, and cost.
  • Own LLM orchestration : multi-agent systems, tool use, function‑calling, structured outputs, routing, context windows, retrieval and evals.
  • Build evaluation & observability : golden datasets, automated evals, prompt/version management and monitoring.
  • Productionize reliably : scalable APIs/services, workers/queues, caching and provider failover. Optimize performance while keeping costs reasonable.
  • Data foundations : integrate first‑party events and catalog data; respect data contracts.
  • Vendor strategy : evaluate and integrate multiple model providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) while tracking quality, cost, and reliability.
  • Raise the bar : document best practices, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers on AI patterns.

What We’re Looking For

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 12–18 months building and shipping LLM‑powered products (from prototype to GA) with meaningful customer adoption. Please include links, demos, or a brief write‑up if possible.
  • Strong Python and TypeScript experience. Solid systems design and API fundamentals.
  • Hands‑on with LLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval patterns, and agent/tool design.
  • Pragmatic prompt engineering and prompt/version control
  • Production chops: cloud (GCP), containers, CI/CD, monitoring/alerting; comfortable owning services in prod.
  • Product sense, clear communication, and a bias to ship.

Nice to have

  • E‑commerce, recommendations, ranking or ads experience.
  • Experience with streaming responses, Streamable HTTP/SSE/WebSocket patterns for real-time AI interactions.
  • Real‑time personalization and event pipelines (e.g., Kafka, pub/sub).
  • Front‑end (React) skills for rapid prototyping of AI UX.
  • Experimentation/analytics tools (e.g., PostHog or similar).
  • Competitive salary + equity package
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
  • US: 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • India: Provident Fund with 12% matching
  • 4 months of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO policy (with minimum 5 days PTO / quarter!)

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

  • Software Development

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