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.
113 AI roles tagged fine_tuning.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaid | Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI | Fintech | 9 | Pretraining · Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability |
| Visa | Staff Research Scientist | Fintech | 9 | Frontier research · Pretraining |
| Block | Principal Engineer, AI Systems | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · RAG · LLM observability · Agent research |
| Plaid | Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI | Fintech | 9 | Pretraining · Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability |
| Plaid | Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI | Fintech | 9 | Pretraining · Model serving |
| Visa | Senior AI Engineer | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving · Frontier research · Interpretability · RL post-training · Agent research · Multimodal |
| Visa | Data Science Manager | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Guardrails · Tool use |
| Visa | Staff Research Scientist | Fintech | 9 | Frontier research · Pretraining · LLM observability |
| Plaid | Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - Data Foundation & AI | Fintech | 9 | Pretraining · Model serving · Inference infra · Frontier research |
| Ramp | Agentic Operator, Growth Marketing | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · RAG · LLM observability |
| PitchBook | Manager, Engineering, AI & ML | Fintech | 8 | LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving |
| PayPal | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Recommender systems · Agent research |
| Plaid | Engineering Manager, AI Applications | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Evals · LLM observability · RLHF · Agent research |
| Stripe | Engineering Manager, AI Conversation Platform | Fintech | 8 | RAG · Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| PitchBook | Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| Gusto | Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving |
| Block | Senior ML/AI Modeler, Risk Automation Machine Learning | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · Model serving · LLM observability |
| PayPal | Lead Product Manager | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Block | Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling), Support | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Robinhood | Senior Software Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Model serving · Inference infra · Evals |
| Visa | Data Scientist | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research |
| Visa | Senior Data Scientist, Payments Foundation Models | Fintech | 8 | Model serving |
| Visa | Staff Engineer GenAI Developer | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| Visa | Staff Software Engineer - Python, AI/ML, Cloud, GenAI | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| Visa | Senior Manager- (Agentic AI Development/Solution/Client facing) | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · RAG · LLM observability · Evals |
| Visa | Staff Software Engineer-AI Solutions | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Tool use · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Visa | Lead AI Engineer (Agentic AI) | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Visa | Lead AI Engineer (Business Intelligence) | Fintech | 8 | RAG · LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| Visa | Staff ML Scientist | Fintech | 8 | Model serving · Evals |
| Visa | Senior Machine Learning Scientist | Fintech | 8 | Model serving · Evals |