About Salvo Software
Salvo Software is a general technology company specializing in custom software development and advanced engineering solutions. With distributed teams across the US, LATAM, and India, we partner with clients to build high-performance, scalable systems that solve complex technical challenges. Our culture values innovation, ownership, and engineering excellence. We're growing our AI capabilities and are looking for a backend-focused AI Developer to join our team
Role Description
We are seeking a highly skilled AI Developer with a strong backend and machine learning engineering background to design, train, optimize, and deploy LLM models in on-prem and offline environments. This role is deeply technical and hands-on, requiring expertise across Python ML stacks, model optimization, local inference frameworks, and DevOps workflows tailored for offline systems. You will work closely with our engineering and product teams to build end-to-end LLM pipelines, including data preprocessing, supervised fine-tuning, model quantization, evaluation,



and deployment using local or air-gapped infrastructure. If you enjoy working with cutting-edge open-source LLMs, optimizing models for constrained environments, and building reliable backend pipelines, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
Core LLM Development
Train and fine-tune LLMs using supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
Work with open-source models such as LLaMA, Mistral, Qwen, and similar architectures.
Build LoRA / Q-LoRA pipelines for efficient fine-tuning.
Implement and optimize data preprocessing workflows, including tokenization and long-context handling.
Use and extend Hugging Face Transformers & Datasets for training and inference.
Parse and process structured and semi-structured data, including XML/XSD files.
Implement document parsing solutions for Office formats (python-docx, OpenXML).
Offline / On-Prem Model Expertise
Deploy, run, and maintain models fully offline and in air-gapped environments.
Perform

📌 AI Developer (Ciudad Apodaca)
🏢 Salvo Software
📍 Ciudad Apodaca