ML Engineer - BizTrip.ai

About Us:BizTrip.ai is reimagining corporate travel through the power of artificial intelligence. We are redesigning the corporate travel experience from the ground up, and we're looking for passionate innovators who want to transform an industry ripe for disruption. Our founders have deep roots in the travel industry, plus experience at some of the best Silicon Valley companies including Stripe and Heroku. BizTrip was co-founded by Andrew Ng and is backed by his AI Fund.
The Opportunity:In this role, you will collaborate with AI engineering to build classical and generative models that enable our intelligent travel planning agents. You will contribute to model building, training, fine-tuning and RL efforts that seek to create truly intelligent AI assistants.
At BizTrip, you'll have the opportunity to shape our ML strategy from the ground up and make significant contributions to cutting-edge technology. We offer competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and the chance to work with a passionate team pushing the boundaries of AI applications.

What You Will Do:

• Lead data analysis initiatives to extract meaningful insights that drive product development.
• Design, develop, and optimize machine learning models to solve complex problems.
• Implement, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models for specific applications.
• Establish data processing pipelines and infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate AI solutions.

What We're Looking For:

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with data analysis, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
• Knowledge of NLP concepts and experience with transformer-based models.
• Familiarity with LLM fine-tuning techniques (PEFT, LoRA, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.

Nice To Haves:

• Previous experience at an AI-focused company or research lab.
• Published research or contributions to open-source AI/ML projects.
• Experience deploying ML models to production environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Why Join Us:

• Pioneer a revolution in how millions of business travellers experience corporate travel.
• Shape next-generation AI interfaces that redefine user-machine interaction.
• Strategic equity ownership and competitive compensation.
• Directly influence our product roadmap and strategic direction.
• Help build and nurture a world-class engineering team from the ground up.
• A chance to build the best company you ever worked for.

At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.