We’re Hiring! Join LiftOff and Shape the Future of Product Innovation
At LiftOff, we specialize in product creation, helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. With a track record of launching 70+ successful products, our team of seasoned entrepreneurs and engineers is passionate about building impactful solutions.
We’re looking for an Engineering Lead who thrives in a startup-like environment and loves solving complex challenges. We'd love to talk if you're experienced in AI/ML, backend, or full-stack development and enjoy mentoring teams while driving technical excellence!
What You’ll Do
- Architect & Build: Lead the design and development of scalable AI-powered applications across diverse industries.
- Lead AI/ML Initiatives: Own the AI roadmap, selecting the right models, frameworks, and deployment strategies.
- Stay Hands-On: Prototype, fine-tune, and optimize LLMs, transformers, multimodal models, computer vision pipelines, and NLP models
- Mentor & Scale: Guide engineering teams, set best practices, and drive AI adoption across projects.
MLOps & Deployment: Build robust pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment on cloud & edge environments. - Solve Real-World Problems: Translate business challenges into AI-driven solutions using state-of-the-art techniques.
What We’re Looking For
Must-Have Skills & Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Deep expertise in AL/ML, particularly in:
*Large Language Models (LLMs) – Fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, and model evaluation.
*Computer Vision – Image classification, object detection, segmentation, OCR, GANs, or multimodal AI.
*Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Transformer-based models (BERT, GPT, T5), entity recognition, summarization, search.
*AI-powered Automation – Workflow automation, AI agents, reinforcement learning, and decision-making systems. - Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Node.js, Java, or C++, with experience in deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX).
- MLOps & Model Deployment: Experience with model serving (Triton, Ray Serve, FastAPI), vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate), Kubernetes, and cloud ML platforms (AWS Sagemaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML).
- Experience in full-stack AI system development – backend, APIs, and integrations with AI-powered applications.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, data engineering (Spark, Kafka, Airflow), and real-time processing.
- Excellent communication skills – ability to explain complex AI concepts to engineers, product teams, and customers.
Nice-to-Have - Experience in pre-sales or technical consulting – helping clients leverage AI for business impact.
- Familiarity with cutting-edge AI APIs & models (GPT, Claude, Mistral, Llama, open-source foundation models).
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in fast-moving, startup-like environments.
- Contributions to open-source AI projects, research papers, or AI benchmarks.
If you’re excited about working with cutting-edge technology and building products that make an impact, let's connect!