Everstar

Founding AI Engineer

New York City. Posted 10 months ago

The role

You will build production AI systems and conduct frontier R&D to accelerate nuclear deployment. This role involves owning the AI stack from evaluation frameworks to fine-tuning pipelines and agent orchestration.

What you will do

  • Build production AI agents
  • Design eval infrastructure
  • Own fine-tuning pipelines
  • Push the frontier with AI-accelerated weather simulations
  • Develop physics-informed design safety analyses
  • Create vision and physics models for document analysis and monitoring
  • Develop agentic workflows
  • Leverage NVIDIA partnership for cutting-edge tools
  • Set technical direction for model selection and ML ops stack
  • Mentor and lead other AI engineers

Required qualifications

  • 3–8 years building production ML/LLM systems
  • Mastery of Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases, prompt engineering, and modern LLM ops
  • Experience designing benchmark suites and tracking model quality
  • Experience owning outcomes, setting technical direction, or mentoring teammates
  • Submit resume and LinkedIn profile
  • Submit GitHub or portfolio
  • Submit 200 words on what excites you about building AI for nuclear deployment
  • Submit 150 words describing a production ML system you owned

Nice to have

  • Experience with physics-informed neural networks, scientific computing, or simulation acceleration
  • Published research in ML/AI
  • Contributions to open-source ML frameworks
  • Deep familiarity with NVIDIA tools (NeMo, Modulus, CUDA optimization)
  • Background in physics, engineering, or computational science
  • Experience with physics-informed AI, simulation acceleration, or scientific computing

Benefits

  • Top of market base
  • Meaningful equity
  • Health/dental/vision
  • FSA
  • Wellness stipend
  • Large AI research budget for compute, conferences, and experimentation
  • Access to NVIDIA and Microsoft research teams and tools
  • Access to latest NVIDIA hardware

About the company

Everstar builds the intelligence layer that makes nuclear power actually deployable. They pair deep nuclear domain expertise with frontier AI.

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