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      <Title>Lead AI Engineer</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We&#39;re looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join our team. As a Lead AI Engineer, you&#39;ll lead development of TRAM, our proprietary AI reasoning model that reads and interprets global trade law. This isn&#39;t a lookup problem, it&#39;s a reasoning problem , and it only became solvable with LLMs.</p>
<p>You&#39;ll build the data pipelines that ingest legal sources, the model stack that produces structured evidence, the evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, and the fine-tuning loops that improve performance. The unusual constraint: you need speed, scale, correctness, and robustness simultaneously , at millisecond latency, zero downtime, heading toward billions of transactions where a single error costs a customer $20K.</p>
<p>Within weeks:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lead development of new features aimed at increasing TRAM’s test-time accuracy</li>
<li>Work on the underlying data and retrieval pipelines that help power our AI workflows</li>
<li>Work directly with our internal tax experts to understand how TRAM can better reason like them</li>
</ul>
<p>Within months:</p>
<ul>
<li>Own TRAM’s eval framework and workflows</li>
<li>Work directly with leading frontier labs to reinforce fine tune models on our proprietary data</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Prior experience building AI enabled products, particularly RAG systems</li>
<li>Experience fine tuning base models, ideally via RFT</li>
<li>Willingness to dive into tax technical problems - if you aren’t willing to dive deep on how the model should reason through the tax research process you won’t be effective</li>
<li>A strong understanding of how LLMs and reasoning models function</li>
</ul>
<p>Nice to haves:</p>
<ul>
<li>Experience working with LLMs on legal applications</li>
<li>Experience with RAG data pipelines and collecting/curating data for the pipeline</li>
</ul>
<p>Who you are:</p>
<ul>
<li>You&#39;ll thrive here if: you&#39;re a dog, early stage is in your bones, you own it end to end, you believe speed and accuracy are both possible, and being in the room is a feature, not a cost.</li>
<li>This won&#39;t be a fit if: you need structure handed to you or ambiguity feels draining rather than motivating, you want to manage people more than own hard problems, you&#39;re used to &#39;good enough&#39; shipping, or being in the room five days a week feels like a cost instead of a benefit.</li>
</ul>
<p>Compensation Range: $250K - $300K</p>
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      <Jobtype>Full time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>onsite</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>$250K - $300K</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>AI, LLMs, RAG systems, fine tuning base models, tax technical problems, evaluation frameworks, fine-tuning loops, experience working with LLMs on legal applications, experience with RAG data pipelines and collecting/curating data for the pipeline</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Sphere</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/sphere.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Sphere built a system that solves global trade compliance using artificial intelligence. It&apos;s backed by a16z and YC, with a $21M Series A and 30%+ month-over-month growth.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://sphere.com</Employerwebsite>
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      <Applyto>https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphere/4e3c5943-bd07-4ce1-8e13-68b00221d0b7</Applyto>
      <Location>San Francisco HQ</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-24</Postedate>
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