Tech Lead – LLM & Generative AI

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Written By Nik Arkharov

  • 📍 Location: Fully remote (EMEA)

  • 💼 Employment Type: Permanent or B2B Contract

  • 💰 Base: €140k – €150k per annum + benefits (listed below)

  • 📅 Start Date: Immediate/negotiable


Hands-on | High Scale | Builder Mindset

We’re building a large-scale conversational AI platform used by millions of users every day — fast, creative, and unapologetically real.

This is not a research-only role and not a people-manager-in-name-only position. We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead who wants to own the brain of the system and ship real impact into production.

If you enjoy solving hard problems at scale, steering powerful language models, and writing production-grade code daily — keep reading 👇

🧠 What You’ll Be Owning

  • Architecting and evolving the core LLM system powering a high-traffic conversational product

  • Writing and shipping code daily in Python & PyTorch 🧑‍💻

  • Optimising latency, throughput, and context handling at massive token volumes

  • Owning the full model lifecycle — from data pipelines to deployment

  • Designing alignment strategies that balance safety, steerability, and creativity

  • Leading by example while mentoring a small, senior team of AI engineers

⚙️ The Technical Playground

You’ll be deep in the modern LLM stack:

  • PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM

  • SFT, RLHF, DPO pipelines

  • Inference optimisation & serving at scale

  • Data-centric iteration (yes, you’ll get your hands dirty)

This environment values shippable solutions over perfect papers 📦

🔥 What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with recent hands-on LLM work

  • Proven experience shipping LLMs to production at scale (millions of users / high token throughput)

  • Strong intuition for model behaviour, alignment, and steering

  • Comfort working with open-ended or NSFW content, handled via robust technical controls (not blunt filters)

  • Fluent in Python/PyTorch — you speak the language, not just the theory

🧩 How You Think & Work

  • Straightforward communicator — clear, direct, no fluff

  • Owner mindset: you care about metrics after the merge 📊

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration

  • Track record of taking ownership of critical systems

🌍 Working Style

  • Fully remote

  • Fast-paced, scale-up environment

  • High autonomy, high trust

📝 Interview Preview

Expect conversations around:

  • Shipping LLMs at scale and solving real production issues

  • Trade-offs between SFT vs RLHF/DPO

  • Inference latency, context windows, and system bottlenecks

  • Metrics that actually matter in production

  • Open-source model strengths and weaknesses

🎁 What We Offer

✍️ Contract Flexibility
Prefer B2B, but open to other arrangements — what matters most is long-term ownership and real impact.

🌍 Work From Anywhere
Fully remote. Build world-class AI from wherever you do your best thinking.

🏝️ Generous Time Off
4 weeks (20 working days) of paid time off per year — step back, reset, and come back sharp.

🤝 Annual Team Gathering
Once a year, we meet in person to align on vision, brainstorm big ideas, and celebrate what we’ve shipped.

❤️‍🩹 Health & Wellbeing Support
Up to $200/year for wellbeing expenses plus unlimited 1:1 sessions with psychologists and lifestyle experts (also available for up to three family members).

🏢 Co-Working Budget
Prefer not to work from home every day? Use a co-working space up to twice per month (35 EUR / 40 USD per visit).

📚 Learning & Experimentation Budget
Funds for courses, books, conferences, research, or anything that keeps you sharp in the fast-moving LLM space.

💻 Equipment & Setup
Company laptop provided, plus up to $250 for monitors or home-office upgrades.

⚡ Premium AI Tooling
Full access to top-tier AI tools (LLM APIs, coding assistants, model hubs) so you can move fast and build better.



If you’re excited by owning complex systems, shaping how large language models behave in the real world, and building something used at a serious scale — this one’s for you ⚡


👉 Apply

Nik Arkharov