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At AlertMedia, everything we do supports our mission: To save lives and minimize loss by identifying active threats globally and facilitating timely communications when an emergency threatens personal safety and business continuity.
Our core values drive us in our important mission of keeping people safe:
- We’re humans not robots
- Customers always come first
- We work better together
- Simplicity is our strength
- Our reputation is priceless
- Hard work pays off
AlertMedia is hiring an innovative and hands-on AI Engineer to lead the evaluation, training, and integration of advanced AI and machine learning models across our product suite. In this role, you will help shape our AI strategy by identifying the most appropriate models for our use cases, optimizing their performance through fine-tuning and prompt engineering, and ensuring their responsible deployment within our platforms. You will have the opportunity to show who you are throughout our interview process; we don’t ask any trick questions or expect you to perform a whiteboard exercise. We want to see you shine by showing us work you are most proud of!
Who you are:
You are deeply curious about what’s possible with AI—especially large language models and applied ML—and motivated to push the boundaries of what’s useful and performant in real-world applications. You’re a collaborative engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment, and you’re as comfortable training and fine-tuning models as you are crafting prompts or evaluating model outputs. You have a strong understanding of ML fundamentals, but you're pragmatic in applying the right solution for the problem.
What you get to do every day:
- Train and fine-tune supervised learning models (e.g., classification, ranking, embeddings) for internal tools and customer-facing product features.
- Lead prompt engineering and testing efforts to fine-tune LLM behavior for specific use cases across the product suite.
- Design and implement evaluation pipelines for both LLMs and traditional ML models.
- Develop tools and frameworks to support prompt iteration, model benchmarking, and performance tracking.
- Coordinate with security team to ensure adherence to AI compliance standards.
- Evaluate and compare commercial and open-source LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Meta, etc.) for performance, cost, alignment, and reliability.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate AI features in a safe, scalable, and maintainable way.
- Monitor and improve the quality of models in production.
- Stay informed of emerging research in NLP, machine learning, and AI infrastructure, and evaluate potential applications for the business.
- Contribute to AlertMedia’s culture, values and vision for the future.
What you bring to the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred.
- 4–6+ years of experience in data science and/or software engineering, specifically in machine learning engineering, or applied AI.
- Strong understanding of LLMs and traditional machine learning methods.
- Experience with prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and evaluation.
- Familiarity with model evaluation best practices, including offline metrics, cross-validation, and A/B testing.
- Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face).
- Experience with cloud-based ML tooling (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock) and data workflows.
- Demonstrated experience training and deploying supervised learning models (required), ideally in production environments (a plus).
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively on cross-functional teams.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage working on multiple projects in parallel.
- The ability and desire to work in a fast-paced challenging environment.
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to effectively work cross-functionally in a fast-paced challenging environment.
- English proficiency (written and oral) is required.
- Ability to work in our Reforma offices 2xs a week and colloborate with our engineering, product, and customer operations teams.
Why you’ll love working at AlertMedia:
- Competitive Base Salary
- Annual Company Bonus
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for employees
- Christmas Bonus (Aguinaldo)
- Holiday and Vacation Days
- Additional Vacation Bonus
- All computer equipment provided to our employees
- Amazing rewards and incentives – we love celebrating each other
- A Best Places to Work company 9 years in a row and numerous other awards
- Ongoing career development opportunities through our Learning & Development team - we love investing in our people!
About AlertMedia:
AlertMedia helps organizations protect their people and businesses through all phases of an emergency. Our award-winning threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions help companies of all sizes identify, respond to, and recover from critical events faster and more confidently. AlertMedia supports essential communication for thousands of leading businesses—including DHL, JetBlue, Coca-Cola Bottling, In-N-Out, and Walmart—in more than 130 countries.
We are an equal opportunity employer focused on creating a collaborative and exciting place for all to work. Ensuring a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace for all people is key to our success and core to our values. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
This is an amazing opportunity to be part of our wave of momentum and take our company, and your career, to the next growth stage. We'd love to get to know you better and share how we serve our amazing customers. For more information, please visit www.alertmedia.com.
Come join us in our mission to save lives and minimize loss through effective communication.
By applying for the role, you agree that Alert Media will use your Personal Information in connection with the recruitment process and in accordance with our Privacy Policy – https://www.alertmedia.com/legal/privacy-policy/
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What We Do
AlertMedia helps organizations protect their people and businesses through all phases of an emergency. Our award-winning threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions help companies of all sizes identify, respond to, and recover from critical events faster and more confidently. Our team of in-house intelligence analysts and meteorologists work around the clock to monitor thousands of data sources around the world, providing our customers and employees with verified, credible information to protect them from impending threats.
AlertMedia has been recognized both nationally and locally for its exceptional company culture, most recently being named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list for 2023. We were also named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers for two consecutive years, Austin Business Journal’s Best Places to Work for nine consecutive years, and Built In Austin’s 100 Best Places to Work in Austin.
Located in the heart of downtown Austin in the "smartest building in the city", AlertMedia inspires and invests in our employees through continuous developmental experiences, including Career Month, community volunteering, mentorship programs, Employee Resource Groups, and weekly "Tuesday Lunches" where the company comes together to learn about and discuss any business updates. AlertMedia also facilitates a robust internship program, working with universities (including HBCUs), non-profit organizations like Hiring Our Heroes, and similar partners to invest in the future of our diverse workforce.
Why Work With Us
AlertMedia employees have a strong connection to our mission and product. An anonymous employee survey recently revealed 99% of our people feel the work they do is important and making a direct impact, 94% feel our diverse, grow-from-within culture is collaborative and supportive, and 92% are taking advantage of our career development opportunities
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AlertMedia Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our hybrid policy provides flexibility so employees can work and collaborate from home or in our Austin offices, either full- or part-time. We ask employees in Austin to join us on Tuesday for company-sponsored lunch to connect and learn together.