Member of Technical Staff (Models)
About the role
As a Member of Technical Staff on Models, you'll own the post-training loop that improves the performance of our AI Employees. You will be defining how we train models to do mission critical work in the real world.
Areas you may work in:
- Post-training and fine-tuning
- Turning agent traces and expert feedback into training data
- Reward modeling and graders for non-verifiable outcomes
- Distillation into smaller, faster, cheaper models
- Designing and running training experiments
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have trained or fine-tuned models and shipped the result into a product
- Have hands-on experience with SFT, preference optimization, or RLHF
- Can read traces and tell whether a metric measures the thing that matters
- Have strong software engineering fundamentals alongside ML depth
- Want to work in person in San Francisco
Even better:
- You've adapted open-weight models to a specialized domain
- You've built training data or evaluation infrastructure
- You contribute to open source projects
About Jarmin AI
Jarmin AI is a Y Combinator-backed startup (F25 batch) building autonomous AI employees for human-level roles including ML Engineer, Financial Analyst, Account Executive, Paralegal, and Compliance Analyst. Founded in 2025 by three engineers with backgrounds at Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, Apple, and AWS, the company's core thesis is that every company should have access to top-tier AI/ML capabilities regardless of whether they can recruit or afford specialized talent. The product learns its assigned responsibilities, connects to a company's internal data and systems, and operates autonomously within existing workflows.
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Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000
Equity
0.25% - 1%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
