Mid/Senior AI LLM Engineer (Full Remote - Italy)

Summary: Join EverAI's AI team to fine-tune and optimize open-weight LLMs for a massive user base. You will handle post-training, evaluation, and production deployment of models to improve personalization, consistency, and safety.

Our Vision & Products

*🚀 EverAI — Building the Future of AI Companionship*

*One of the Top 15 Largest & Fastest-Growing AI Companies in the World*

*50 Million Users in 2 years — Help Us Reach 100M first, 500M next*

At EverAI, we’re shaping what it means to connect with AI. With 50 million users and counting, we're not just building products — we're creating entirely new categories.

Our flagship product is the world’s largest AI companionship platform, redefining relationships for millions. It is governed by our proprietary moderation system, EverGuard — an internal AI designed to ensure everything we build is safe, ethical, and human-first.

*And we’re only just getting started!*

Our Team

We are an enthusiastic, passionate and hardworking team of ≈ 100 people. Our founding team has strong entrepreneurial experience building and scaling web products from 0 to IPO.

Alexis Soulopoulos [CEO]

*• 10+ years in Tech Executive Leadership*

*• Co-Founder Mad Paws Holdings (from 0 to IPO)*

*• Forbes 30 under 30 + Deloitte TechFast50 ’22 & ‘23*

Michael Monin [Co-founder & CTO]

*• 10+ years as CTO / COO (web2/web3), 3 years in AI/LLM*

*• Serial-entrepreneur: MTK Digital (exited / 0->$20m revenue) and Zipchat (AI Chatbot for E-commerce brands)*

Thomas Lacroix [Co-founder & CMO]

*• 8+ years in Customer Acquisition & E-commerce Growth*

*• Serial-entrepreneur: Curatible (sold to Blackstone) and MTK Digital (exited / 0->$20m revenue)*

Maruša Fasano [CFO/Legal]

*• 25+ years in Finance, Strategy, M&A*

*• Ex-CFO/M&A @Curatible (exited to Blackstone)*

*• Ex-President of the Board @SotremoSA (exited)*

*• Co-founder/CFO @SoftOne (exited)*

Your Role

Most LLM roles stop at experimentation.

Here, the models you improve power experiences for 50M+ users.

Most of our traffic runs on self-hosted, fine-tuned open-weight models. On our internal roleplay evals, our smaller fine-tuned models can outperform much larger off-the-shelf models. Your job is to make them better.

You’ll join a small AI team led by Marco, our LLM Tech Lead, working closely with our CTO, Product, Web and DevOps teams. You’ll work across data, post-training, evals, and model behavior, taking ideas from failure analysis to production.

The problems are real: personalization, character consistency, long conversations, better evals, multilingual behavior, and faster training cycles.

If you want to shape model behavior at consumer scale, this is the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Fine-tune open-weight LLMs using SFT, LoRA/QLoRA and post-training methods such as DPO and GRPO
• Diagnose model failures and turn them into experiments. Decide whether the answer is better data, post-training, prompting or classifiers
• Build training data and evals that directly shape what gets trained next
• Improve model behavior across personalization, consistency, tone, multilingual and group interactions
• Ship to production and use real user behavior to guide the next iteration
• Speed up the training loop so experiments are faster, easier to compare, and more reproducible

Your Qualifications

• You’ve personally post-trained open-weight LLMs for a user-facing product and shipped them to production
• You’ve worked where AI was core to the product or business, not an experimental side feature
• Fine-tuning is core to your experience
• Strong Python, PyTorch and Hugging Face, with hands-on GPU training and debugging
• You build data and evals yourself and make decisions from evidence
• You can take work beyond notebooks into production
• You use AI tools daily in your own engineering work
• You are fully comfortable working with uncensored models and explicit NSFW content, including harmful material when developing and evaluating moderation system

### Bonus points

• Experience with conversational AI, roleplay products, or highly personalized consumer AI
• Multilingual LLMs
• Moderation, safety, or adversarial testing
• Multimodal models
• Open-source LLM / post-training contributions

Why EverAI?

📈 Exponential Growth: From 50M users in 2 years, to 100M next — and 500M beyond

🚀 Track Record of Category-Creating Innovation: We consistently launch world-first AI applications — setting the pace, not following it

🌍 Global Impact: Top-tier user growth, real-world adoption, and cultural relevance

🧠 Proven Leadership: A senior team that’s launched, scaled, and exited & IPO’d multiple scale ups — now fully focused on reshaping AI companionship

👥 Elite Remote Team: 100% remote and built to win — world-class talent from Tier 1 tech companies, with a culture of ownership, velocity, and radical creativity

🛡️ Ethical Core: Our AI ecosystem is governed by EverGuard, our proprietary AI moderation technology, ensuring responsible development at scale

What We Offer

✍️ Contract Type: We prefer B2B, but we’re flexible, what matters is long-term commitment and impact
📍 Work From Anywhere: Fully remote. Choose the environment where you do your best work
🏝️ Paid Time Off: 4 weeks (20 working days) of PTO per year to recharge and reset
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Annual Gathering: A yearly in-person meetup to connect, brainstorm, and celebrate wins together
❤️‍🩹 Health & Wellness Support: Monthly allowance of 100 USD for health insurance expenses & access to unlimited 1:1 sessions with psychologists and lifestyle experts through *OpenUp* (also available to up to three of your family members)
🏢 Co-Working Space Budget: Work from a co-working space up to twice per month (35 EUR / 40 USD per visit) to stay inspired and connected
📚 Learning Budget: Dedicated funds to support your professional growth: courses, books, conferences, events, or certifications
💻 Company Laptop & Equipment: Laptop provided + monitor budget up to 250 USD + keyboard/mouse/mic/headphones budget up to 150 USD
⚡ AI Tools Access: Premium access to ChatGPT, Hugging Face, Claude Code, and any other tool needed to excel at your job, power your ideas and workflows

🎯 Top Tier Talent Is Our Multiplier

We’re a fully remote group of A-players from Tier 1 tech, led by an exec team who’ve launched, scaled, and exited multiple companies. We move fast, and care deeply about what we build — and who we build it with.

We’re looking for exceptional talent ready to ship & distribute world-first AI products at scale, fast, and co-create with us this category-defining business.

If that’s you — reach out and apply!