Lead AI Engineer
Sphere, San Francisco HQ
The role
You'll lead development of TRAM, our proprietary AI reasoning model that reads and interprets global trade law. This isn't a lookup problem, it's a reasoning problem — and it only became solvable with LLMs. You'll build the data pipelines that ingest legal sources, the model stack that produces structured evidence, the evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, and the fine-tuning loops that improve performance. The unusual constraint: you need speed, scale, correctness, and robustness simultaneously — at millisecond latency, zero downtime, heading toward billions of transactions where a single error costs a customer $20K.
What you need
Requirements
- Prior experience building AI enabled products, particularly RAG systems
- Experience fine tuning base models, ideally via RFT
- Willingness to dive into tax technical problems - if you aren’t willing to dive deep on how the model should reason through the tax research process you won’t be effective