AI Engineer

About Us & The Team Til-Qazyna is a national scientific and practical center dedicated to building the core digital and AI infrastructure for the Kazakh language. We develop foundational language resources, linguistic tools, and open-source models, including custom text corpora, morphological analyzers, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuned Large Language Models. We are looking for an AI Engineer to focus exclusively on natural language processing, corpus engineering, and LLM fine-tuning. Key Responsibilities • LLM Adaptation & Fine-Tuning: Fine-tune, evaluate, and benchmark open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma) for Kazakh language understanding and generation using parameter-efficient methods (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT). • NLP & Linguistic Tooling: Develop, maintain, and optimize rule-based and neural NLP components, including morphological analyzers, lemmatizers, tokenizers, and terminology parsers. • Corpus & Data Pipelines: Design automated pipelines for large-scale text crawling, data cleaning, deduplication, synthetic data generation, and dataset curation. • Inference & Deployment: Package NLP models and LLMs into containerized microservices (Docker, FastAPI) and optimize inference using modern serving frameworks (vLLM, Ollama, TensorRT-LLM, ONNX). Requirements • 1+ years of hands-on experience as NLP / AI / Machine Learning engineer. • Solid understanding of the Transformer architecture, attention mechanisms, embeddings, and tokenization. • Experience with core ML/NLP libraries: PyTorch, Hugging Face (transformers, datasets, accelerate, peft), Scikit-learn. • Experience building data preprocessing pipelines and working with structured/unstructured text data. • Practical knowledge of Docker, Linux, and Git. • Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics. Nice to Have • Hands-on experience with modern LLM serving and optimization engines (vLLM, TGI, llama.cpp, quantization techniques like AWQ/GPTQ). • Experience with RAG stacks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, ChromaDB, Qdrant, FAISS). • Understanding of the morphological, agglutinative, or grammatical characteristics of the Kazakh language. • Familiarity with alignment techniques (DPO, RLHF) or synthetic data generation. What We Offer • Direct impact on sovereign AI development and language technology used at scale. • Official employment in full compliance with the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. • Access to high-performance GPU compute clusters for model training and experimentation.