Job Description
Overview
Join an acclaimed team recognized for achievements and culture, including the recent Forbes award as one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2024!
Position Summary
We are seeking an AI Engineer with strong software engineering skills and expertise in various AI and ML domains. This role involves working with:
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Vision Language Models (VLMs)
- Speech recognition systems
- Conversational AI technologies
Responsibilities
- Implement and fine-tune LLMs for business applications
- Develop VLMs for image understanding and multimodal AI
- Design document understanding systems using OCR and text processing
- Create speech recognition and conversational AI solutions
- Establish human-in-the-loop processes for model improvement
- Build and deploy AI agents and assistants
- Integrate multimodal capabilities into AI systems
- Evaluate and benchmark foundation models
- Develop prompt engineering strategies
- Collaborate on model serving infrastructure
- Maintain evaluation frameworks and metrics
- Integrate AI into existing software
- Keep updated with emerging AI technologies
Qualifications
Education
- Minimum: Bachelor's in CS, Software Engineering, or related
- Preferred: Master's or PhD in the same fields
Experience
- Minimum: 2+ years in software engineering and AI/ML systems; experience with LLMs and VLMs; familiar with document understanding, OCR, speech recognition, conversational AI; knowledge of distributed systems
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience; cross-domain AI expertise; model deployment/monitoring; multimodal systems; evaluation benchmarks
Knowledge and Skills
- Programming: Python and at least one other modern language (Java, Go)
- Software design principles
- AI/ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
- Foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic)
- AI architectures and fine-tuning
- Computer vision frameworks, OCR, speech recognition, conversational AI platforms
- Prompt engineering
- AI evaluation and cloud infrastructure
- Good communication
Preferred Skills
- Multimodal AI
- Document understanding
- Voice assistants
- Image processing
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Human-in-the-loop AI
- AI safety practices
- Performance optimization
- Containerization and orchestration
About Mercury
Since over 60 years, Mercury has been dedicated to reducing risk and aiding recovery. We embrace growth, diversity, and inclusion. Our benefits include:
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- Flexible work options
- Paid time off and holidays
- Insurance plans
- 401(k) with company match
- Development opportunities
- Wellbeing resources
Learn more: Mercury Careers
Perks & Benefits
- Compensation & bonuses
- Work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Paid Time Off (vacation, sick days, holidays)
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Growth, development, and recognition programs
- Wellbeing resources
Pay Range and Employment
- USD $85,479 - $157,868 per year
- Employment Type: Other