Tech Lead, LLM & Generative AI (Full Remote - Netherlands) at EverAI

Tech Lead, LLM & Generative AI (Full Remote - Netherlands) Company: EverAI Location: Netherlands (fully remote, must be based in Netherlands) Employment Type: Full-time (B2B contract preferred, flexible) Posted: November 27, 2025 About EverAI: EverAI is one of the top 15 largest and fastest-growing AI companies globally with 50 million users in 2 years, operating the world's largest AI companionship platform with a proprietary moderation system called EverGuard. The platform processes 80 million tokens per day. About the Role: This is a hands-on technical leadership position (player-coach) leading a 3-person LLM engineering team with significant coding time. Key Responsibilities: 1. Ship Code & Lead from the Front: - Act as player-coach with significant hands-on coding time - Own the core chat loop: optimize context windows, memory/RAG retrieval, inference latency - Write production code and architect LLM systems handling massive scale 2. Own the Model Lifecycle: - Drive strategy for SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) and RLHF/DPO - Manage data sourcing, labeling, and cleaning for model improvements 3. Architect High-Precision Moderation: - Design nuanced, context-aware moderation systems beyond binary safe/unsafe flags - Build custom classifiers for content moderation in NSFW environment Required Qualifications: - 8+ years engineering experience shipping ML/LLM features to millions of users - Proficient in Python/PyTorch and modern LLM stack (vLLM, HuggingFace, fine-tuning pipelines, eval frameworks) - Comfortable working with NSFW/uncensored content moderation challenges - Understanding of prompt conditioning, temperature, and sampling effects - Production-focused mindset over academic perfection - Ownership mentality obsessing over metrics and user experience Compensation & Benefits: - Salary range: $50,000-$180,000+ USD with equity - B2B contract preferred; flexible arrangements - 4 weeks (20 working days) PTO - $100 USD/month health allowance + unlimited mental health sessions - Learning/professional development budget - Company laptop + $250 monitor budget - Premium AI tools access (ChatGPT, Cursor, HuggingFace) - Co-working stipend - Annual in-person gathering