Senior/Staff Applied GenAI Researcher – Enterprise Outcome Team

TrueFoundry

Date: 12 hours ago
City: San Mateo, California
Contract type: Full time
About TrueFoundry:

TrueFoundry is an enterprise-grade AI/ML platform that accelerates the development, deployment, and scaling of GenAI and ML applications with security, cost efficiency, and cross-cloud flexibility. Trusted by companies like NVIDIA, CVS, Merck, Synopsys, and many more, we're helping enterprises unlock the full value of AI faster.

We're now scaling our Enterprise Outcomes motion — a strategic arm focused on delivering domain-specific solutions that drive business transformation and shape our product roadmap. We're hiring a senior leader to build and lead the engineering arm of this motion.

The Role:

We are seeking an Applied GenAI Researcher to join our Enterprise Outcome Team.

You'll work closely with our enterprise customers and cobuild applications with their team, in their environments. We focus on GenAI projects with our customers:

  • Build, fine-tune, and deploy scalable GenAI and ML applications
  • Solve critical business problems through hands-on engineering and innovation
  • Build accelerators on TrueFoundry's platform to ensure faster delivery for end customers
  • Contribute to creating repeatable, scalable AI solution blueprints across industries
  • Work with the tech team of customers on solution designing for their end business problems
  • Effectively communicate the value of TrueFoundry as a product and how it can accelerate the developer productivity while building their applications.

This role blends deep technical work with direct customer impact, helping enterprises realize the full potential of GenAI.

What You'll Do:

  • Build and productionize LLM-based and ML-based solutions, utilizing both open-source and proprietary models
  • Integrate TrueFoundry's platform seamlessly into customer environments and leverage it to expedite the time to value of developing these applications
  • Build agents, write prompts, eval sets, optimize inference time and response quality for applications
  • Write maintainable production-quality high-performance code frequently in Python
  • Build and optimize REST APIs, gRPC services, and data pipelines
  • Drive rapid feedback loops from customer deployments into continuous improvements for product and platform
  • Participate in solution architecture design, code reviews, and engineering best practices adoption

Who You Are:

  • 4+ years experience building and deploying ML applications in production.
  • 4+ years experience writing production code in python
  • 2+ years working in deep learning and Natural language processing
  • 1+ year experience building Agentic applications and GenAI Apps
  • Experience building REST APIs, working with Docker, and setting up CI/CD pipelines

Deep familiarity with Pytorch, HuggingFace libraries

  • Working knowledge of model servers like vLLM, Triton, TensorRT is preferred
  • Understanding of Kubernetes, distributed systems architecture, and cloud-native technologies is preferred
  • Strong system design abilities, with a focus on modular, reliable, and scalable architecture
  • Passionate about applying AI to solve real-world, cross-industry problems
  • Familiarity with LLM fine-tuning, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), prompt engineering, or evaluation frameworks

Why Join TrueFoundry

  • Build foundational Applied GenAI solutions alongside world-class engineers (ex-Facebook Infrastructure leaders)
  • Work on real-world, high-impact problems across multiple industries
  • Collaborate directly with founders and early leadership on shaping company and product direction
  • Enjoy a flexible, ownership-driven work environment with rapid career growth
  • Weekly learning sessions, team-building activities, and startup mentorship opportunities
  • Learning credits and resources to help you grow your technical and professional skills
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