Phonely - Applied Machine Learning Researcher

Remote - Australia1mo ago

Remote APAC Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer Python Data Quality

Requirements

• Strong experience with machine learning and modern language models • Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or adapting language models • Strong Python skills and comfort working with messy, real-world datasets • Ability to design rigorous experiments and interpret the results clearly • Experience building or improving evaluation systems for AI models • Strong analytical skills and the ability to debug model behavior • Clear written and spoken communication, so you can explain findings to technical and non-technical teammates alike • A practical mindset: you care about production impact, latency, reliability, and customer outcomes • A PhD in machine learning, NLP, or a related field • Experience with conversational AI, voice AI, or customer-support automation • Experience with SFT, preference tuning, DPO, RFT, GRPO, RLHF, LoRA, or QLoRA • Familiarity with model serving, inference optimization, or vLLM • Experience with synthetic data generation and data quality pipelines • Experience working in a startup or fast-moving product environment

Benefits

• We're a group of ex-athletes, founders, and builders with low egos and a high belief that life is not about taking the easy road, but challenging ourselves to find the most we can be. Even with a remote team, we stay close: we're big on staying active, we back each other, and we care about the people we work with as much as the work itself. A few times a year we all get together in person and rent out Airbnbs in cool places (Rocky Mountains, Costa Rica, Indonesia) so you can see the world while on the grind.