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AI/ML engineer

Remofirst

Remofirst

Software Engineering, Data Science
Bulgaria
Posted on Jan 7, 2026
We are one of the fastest-growing private companies in the USA, recently at 85th position on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in 2025. Backed by $40+M in venture funding, we are scaling rapidly and investing heavily in AI-driven solutions to supercharge our operations.We’re hiring an AI Engineer to join our team at the intersection of engineering, AI innovation, and go-to-market execution. This role is perfect for a passionate AI practitioner who wants to see their work directly impacts new innovative products, company’s growth and leads to expanding own competencies in the field.

What You’ll Do

  • Implement new AI features in products
  • Build tools & frameworks augmenting the capabilities of LLM/VLMs
  • Build AI automations & AI agents
  • Fine-tune AI models
  • Fine-tune and maintain models with the HuggingFace toolkit
  • Monitor model's performance
  • Work with and guide internal teams on building custom datasets
  • Research & Development
  • Rapidly build and test AI-driven concepts — moving from proof of concept → MVP → production.
  • Evaluate existing solutions (both internal & external) and conduct experiments on potential improvements

What We’re Looking For

  • Technical skills
  • Strong software engineering background: Python, Rust is a nice-to-have
  • Experience in parameter-efficient fine-tuning
  • Knowledge and familiarity with the tools in AI ecosystem (ML frameworks, HuggingFace, MLOps, Guardrails, AI Agents)
  • Understanding the theory behind neural networks and Transformer architecture
  • Experience
  • 2–5 years in AI/ML space, at least 2 years with language models
  • experience with other modalities (vision, audio) is a nice-to-have
  • Track record of going from idea → prototype → production in fast-paced environments
  • Previous experience in R&D department is highly valued
  • Traits
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn
  • Ability to take ownership, but also cooperate in small teams
  • Ambition to reach new levels of quality

Why Join Us

  • Growth opportunity: This is a chance to define how AI transforms a category-leading startup — and grow your career as we scale.
  • As a part of our AI team you will be able to learn from other engineers and ongoing R&D projects.
  • Direct impact: Your work will be at the center of the most important projects in our companyCompetitive compensation and benefits