AI Engineer Training & Alignment

In this role at Eekee AI, you will be responsible for owning the training, alignment, and deployment of the meaning-at-work coach. Your tasks will include designing data pipelines, fine-tuning models, building safety layers, setting evaluations, and shipping to production. **Key Responsibilities:** - Build data flow: sourcing, cleaning, consent/PII scrubbing, augmentation, labeling guidelines - Fine-tune/align (SFT, DPO/RLHF) for coach behavior: listen, reflect, one powerful question, next step - Implement safety: crisis/HR escalation classifiers, toxicity/harassment filters, privacy guardrails - Add context: retrieval for work scenarios; prompts/tools for Question of the Day and Vent - Create evaluations: conversation quality, protocol adherence, safety, bias, latency, cost - Optimize inference: distillation, quantization, caching, batching; observable, canaried rollouts - Document: model cards, red-team results, alignment notes **Qualifications Required:** - 1+ years applied ML/LLMs; shipped fine-tuned models - Strong in PyTorch/JAX and serving (vLLM/Triton/Ray/K8s) - Experience with SFT/DPO/RLHF, synthetic data, eval harnesses - Built safety/quality classifiers and RAG systems - Pragmatic on latency/cost; solid profiling chops - Clear technical writing **Nice to Have:** - Coaching/org-psych or agent-design background - On-device/edge inference; multilingual safety - Model cards, red-teaming, compliance awareness - Zero-to-one startup experience At Eekee AI, we are an AI-driven life coach designed to help employees feel grounded at work and build a lasting sense of purpose. Rooted in Ikigai and Viktor Frankls logotherapy, Eekee uses daily conversations and psychometric signals to identify strengths and values, suggesting resources like books, courses, and team rituals. We support HR teams by improving morale, reducing burnout, and enhancing one-to-one conversations in a private, controlled space. Integrated with Slack and Microsoft Teams, Eekee provides continuous support through thoughtful questions and resource suggestions.,