Adapting a pretrained model to specific data or behavior through additional training, including supervised fine-tuning, preference tuning (DPO, ORPO), and LoRA-style parameter-efficient methods.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: post-training.
As of today, 1,893 active AI roles across 204 companies in our index reference Fine-tuning. Hiring concentrates at the agents (44%) and post-training (26%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Enterprise, Banking. New postings fell 23% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (830 → 636).
Adapting a pretrained model to specific data or behavior through additional training, including supervised fine-tuning, preference tuning (DPO, ORPO), and LoRA-style parameter-efficient methods. Primary AI lifecycle stage: post-training.
1,893 active AI roles across 204 companies in our index reference Fine-tuning as of today. New postings fell 23% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (830 → 636).
The companies with the most active Fine-tuning listings are: Amazon (235 roles), Capital One (127 roles), Google (98 roles), JPMorgan Chase (86 roles), NVIDIA (77 roles).
Fine-tuning primarily belongs to the post-training stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Fine-tuning roles concentrate at: agents (44%), post-training (26%).
The sectors with the most active Fine-tuning hiring are: Big Tech, Enterprise, Banking.
145 AI roles tagged fine_tuning.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uber | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - AV Foundation, AV Labs | Consumer | 10 | Frontier research · Multimodal · Pretraining |
| Airbnb | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Model serving · RLHF · Agent research |
| Whoop | Senior AI Researcher (Foundation AI) | Consumer | 9 | Frontier research · Multimodal · Pretraining · Model serving |
| Spotify | Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization, Horizon | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Spotify | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization, Horizon | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Recommender systems · Multimodal |
| Airbnb | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training | Consumer | 9 | Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Guardrails · Multimodal |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI Security | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Model serving | |
| Airbnb | Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · Model serving · RL post-training · Agent research |
| Instacart | Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Response Prediction | Consumer | 9 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking |
| Uber | 2026 PhD Research Intern, India | Consumer | 9 | RLHF · Evals · Agent research · Frontier research |
| Zillow | Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI | Consumer | 9 | RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · Guardrails · Agent orchestration · Evals · Multimodal · Vector DB |
| Uber | Senior Research Scientist, Generative AI | Consumer | 9 | RL post-training · Evals · Frontier research · Vision |
| Zillow | Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · LLM observability · Agent research |
| Machine Learning Engineer II, Computer Vision Applied Science | Consumer | 9 | Vision · Multimodal · RLHF · Model serving · Evals | |
| Roblox | Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager | Consumer | 9 | Multimodal · Vision · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Roblox | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Synthetic data · Evals · Model serving · Code gen |
| Uber | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Moonshot AI | Consumer | 9 | Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech · LLM observability · Evals · RAG · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Staff Research Engineer, Post-training & Evaluation | Consumer | 9 | Evals · LLM observability · Frontier research · RL post-training | |
| Zillow | Distinguished Scientist | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multi-agent · RL post-training · Evals · LLM observability · Multimodal |
| Uber | Staff ML Engineer, Generative AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving · Multimodal · Audio & speech |
| Roblox | [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Natural Language Processing - PhD Early Career | Consumer | 9 | Model serving · Multimodal |
| Roblox | [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal AI, Computer Vision and Graphics - PhD Early Career | Consumer | 9 | Vision · Multimodal · Model serving |
| Whoop | Staff AI/ML Researcher (Foundation AI) | Consumer | 9 | Multimodal · Pretraining |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Generative Computer Vision | Consumer | 9 | Vision · Multimodal · Evals |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Foundational AQ & EQ | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · RL post-training · LLM observability |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Foundational IQ | Consumer | 9 | Multimodal · Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Next-Gen Agentic and Multi-Modal Home Exploration Experience | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multimodal · Vision · LLM observability · Tool use |
| Zillow | AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, 3D Computer Vision | Consumer | 9 | Vision · Multimodal · Evals |
| Spotify | Senior Research Scientist - Music | Consumer | 9 | Audio & speech · Multimodal |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Science | Consumer | 9 | Vision · RLHF · Multimodal |