Foundation Model Engineer

CommonAI CIC is a non-profit membership organisation focused on the collaborative development of foundational AI technologies. They are seeking a highly skilled foundation model engineer to build, train, evaluate, and deploy LLMs or multimodal models, working across the full AI lifecycle with an emphasis on technical depth and rigour.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement end-to-end LLM training pipelines
• Source and, where appropriate, preprocess datasets for training and evaluation
• Fine-tune and optimise open weight models (LLMs, vision, or traditional ML)
• Build evaluation frameworks and define performance metrics
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and training workflows
• Analyse training pipelines and optimise them for latency, cost, and scalability
• Implement monitoring, logging, and feedback loops for continuous improvement
• Experiment with modern AI tooling and services to investigate how they can be leveraged