Machine Learning Engineer who designs, builds, and ships production AI systems end to end: self-hosted large language model (LLM) pipelines, hybrid retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that grounds AI answers in a knowledge base, evaluation harnesses that gate every release, and the Python backends and CI/CD that run them. Founding Engineer at an early-stage AI startup since December 2023 and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Queens College, CUNY. Master of Arts in Computer Science. New York based, fully remote.

At the startup I set the AI architecture, directed a distributed contract team of about four engineers, and since 2025 have been the...