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

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:
2. Act as player-coach with significant hands-on coding time
3. Own the core chat loop: optimize context windows, memory/RAG retrieval, inference latency
4. Write production code and architect LLM systems handling massive scale
5. Own the Model Lifecycle:
6. Drive strategy for SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) and RLHF/DPO
7. Manage data sourcing, labeling, and cleaning for model improvements
8. Architect High-Precision Moderation:
9. Design nuanced, context-aware moderation systems beyond binary safe/unsafe flags
10. 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