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Senior Applied AI Scientist

Saxon Global
Denver, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/28/2025

Gusto is looking for a Senior Applied AI Scientist to join our AI team and build out our Generative AI capabilities.

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That's why we're committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

Gusto is looking for a contract Applied AI Scientist to support applications around data import using Generative AI.

About The Role

We're looking to build Gusto's first AI team that will bring the power of AI to Gusto's customers. You will sit on Gusto's core AI team, and embed in the Gusto Pro product team to support generative AI projects directed at advanced payroll functionality, in particular capabilities to speed up the tedious process of running payroll using generative AI. You would be working closely with a team of Product Engineers, Designer, PM, and a Data Scientist.

In this role, you'll be responsible for developing, refining, evaluating, and shipping improvements to an existing product that uses proprietary and open source LLMs. You'll be responsible for all aspects of the AI development lifecycle : Designing, pre-training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, evaluation, and deployment. As an Applied AI Scientist, you'll own end-to-end design, implementation and maintenance of the AI features your team builds.

Here's What You'll Do Day-to-day

  • Develop, ship, maintain, and enhance AI models to production.
  • Develop Gusto Assistant, a natural-language interface to Gusto.
  • Improve LLMs through pre-training, fine-turning, and RLHF.
  • Build metrics for LLMs and LLM based products, and assess best methods required to build LLMs suited for purpose
  • Collaborate with the AI / ML infrastructure teams to determine business requirements and SLAs for API-enabled services
  • Research novel AI techniques and strategies that create magical customer experiences.

Here's What We're Looking For

  • At least 6 years of software engineering experience (Python, Ruby or Java).
  • 3 years of experience designing and developing AI and ML models, focused on NLP applications
  • Experience building, deploying and maintaining LLM-based applications in production
  • Required Skills : LLMs, NLP, AI / ML, Python, Data ScienceThis is an opportunity to build a LLM / NLP product from scratch.

    Background Check : Yes

    Notes :

    Selling points for candidate : This is an opportunity to build a LLM / NLP product from scratch.

    Project Verification Info :

    Candidate must be your W2 Employee : Yes

    Exclusive to Apex : Yes

    Face to face interview required : No

    Candidate must be local : No

    Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship : : No

    Interview times set : : No

    Type of project : Master Job Title :

    Branch Code :

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