Fetch Pet Health
Lead Applied AI engineer
Sydney, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will lead applied AI at Fetch by setting direction, choosing models, and building systems to understand pet health. You will build a pet health intelligence layer using datasets, evals, and various modeling techniques to power products for pet parents and vets.
What you will do
- Build Fetch's pet health intelligence layer
- Manage model quality end-to-end including datasets, evals, and fine-tuning
- Develop a serious evaluation system with clear benchmarks
- Turn proprietary pet health data and veterinary knowledge into AI capabilities
- Develop multimodal understanding for health records, documents, and images
- Ensure safe production AI by working with vets and compliance teams
- Influence product direction and decide what to build with AI
- Build the beginnings of an AI team
Required qualifications
- 3+ years building and shipping ML or AI systems in production
- Strong experience with modern LLMs and applied AI systems
- Deep understanding of evals
- Experience with post-training, fine-tuning, RAG, structured outputs, tool use or similar techniques
- Strong instincts around training data
- Engineering ability to take an idea from experiment to production
- Good judgement about model selection and techniques
- Strong product thinking
- Comfortable working directly with domain experts
Nice to have
- Experience in health, veterinary care or insurance
Benefits
- Competitive Series A salary + meaningful equity
- Hybrid working – 3 days Sydney office, flexible WFH
- Latest MacBook Pro and a top setup
- Unlimited AI tooling
- Two team retreats each year
- Office dogs for cuddles and interruptions
- Bean-to-cup coffee, unlimited fruit and snacks. Toblerone on tap
- Inclusive parental leave
- 5 weeks annual leave
Before you apply
- Apply via the link with your CV and anything that shows how you think and build
- Provide details on the best AI system you have built
- Provide details on how you evaluated it
- Provide something new in AI that you are excited about
- Provide links to GitHub, demos, papers, projects or anything else you are proud of
About the company
Fetch is how modern pet parents give their pets the best care through an app for insurance, health and care. They build their own product and technology using pet health data and an in-house team of vets and vet nurses.