Checkmate

AI/LLM Engineer

Checkmate

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇮🇳 India

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

DockerPythonPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

  • We are seeking a highly skilled AI / LLM Engineer to help advance our Drive Through AI initiatives.
  • Create, fine-tune, and deploy AI models that enhance restaurant ordering, streamline operational workflows, and improve system intelligence.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, ASR specialists, and prompt engineering teams to provide tools, integrations, and model improvements.
  • Apply cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs) and NLP in real-world, high-volume environments for accurate understanding and intelligent responses.
  • Build and maintain model infrastructure, APIs, and integrations supporting prompt engineering and audio processing pipelines.
  • Fine-tune and adapt pre-trained LLMs (e.g., GPT, LLaMA, Falcon) for the QSR domain.
  • Use observability tools like Langfuse to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot model performance in production.
  • Embed AI models into production-grade systems connected to order management, displays, and kitchen workflows.
  • Ensure solutions are efficient, scalable, and cost-effective for high-throughput, continuous operations.
  • Stay current with LLM architectures, RAG, and generative AI techniques to improve product capabilities.
  • Maintain documentation of model architectures, training data sources, and evaluation metrics for SOC 2 and compliance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in AI/ML, with strong expertise in NLP, transformer architectures, and deep learning.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and evaluation techniques.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Familiarity with the Instructor and interest or experience in migrating to Pydantic for model definition and validation.
  • Experience integrating AI models into production systems via containerization (Docker) and APIs.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent communication and documentation abilities.
  • Ability to work until 5 p.m. ET with a reliable remote work setup.