Staff Applied Scientist

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Palo Alto / $450000 - $550000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$450000 - $550000

Location

LOCATION

Palo Alto

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Staff Applied Scientist - LLM Suite | Investment Banking | Onsite in Palo Alto, CA

~$450-550k TC including base salary, bonus, and equity grant

Our client, a top-tier global investment bank, is expanding its enterprise AI platform and is looking for a Staff Applied Scientist to join their LLM Suite team. This is a production-focused role where the candidate will be building AI systems actively used by 200,000+ employees worldwide.

This person will own the development of text-to-code pipelines, agentic workflows, database interaction layers, and intelligent chatbots across one of the most complex financial institutions in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and deploying LLM-powered features including text-to-code, workflow automation, and AI agent frameworks
  • Building and integrating multimodal LLM systems via API-based architectures
  • Developing scalable, distributed, and multi-threaded applications using frameworks like Ray, Horovod, and DeepSpeed
  • Owning full end-to-end software development cycles from prototyping through production deployment
  • Architecting and managing containerized infrastructure using Kubernetes and AWS Fargate
  • Building database interaction layers and backend services that support enterprise-scale AI products
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to translate complex requirements into working systems

Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field (required)
  • Deep hands-on experience with LLM integrations, both API-based and fine-tuning workflows
  • Proven experience with multimodal LLMs and cutting-edge foundation models
  • Strong background in distributed systems and scalable application design using Ray, Horovod, DeepSpeed, or equivalent
  • Production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Fargate
  • End-to-end software engineering experience, including design, development, testing, and deployment
  • Experience building chatbots, agentic systems, or AI-assisted developer tooling is a strong plus

CONTACT

Gabriella Varela

Senior Sourcing Consultant

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