Founding AI/ML Engineer

New York City, NYFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Founding AI/ML Engineer at Moda (domain: nullframe.ai) building state-of-the-art agent systems and leading AI/ML initiatives from the ground up.

Work on building and constantly improving a SOTA Agent for our domain
Design robust learning pipelines (e.g. RLHF, RL) and build any custom environments needed for feedback signal
Set up a durable eval strategy
Train smaller models for scoped tasks
Leverage a variety of open source text and image models
Stay abreast of research — we will have budget for you to attend conferences
Shape our technical and hiring strategy alongside the founding team

Have experience with AI agents, RLHF or reinforcement learning (even in academic projects/internships)
Are extremely comfortable in Python and ML frameworks
Have a builder mindset, whether through research projects, internships, side projects, or production systems
Can make independent progress on shipping user-facing features
(Bonus) Have an advanced degree
(Bonus) Have started a company or been early at a startup
(Note) Seniority: open to a broad range of experiences and seniority.

Required:AI agentsPythonMachine learning pipelinesEnvironments for feedback signalsModel training

Nice to have:Research awarenessTechnical leadershipStartup experience

Last updated May 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.