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About this Senior Machine Learning Engineer- LLMs & Self-Hosted AI role at Navan

Navan · Onsite · Tel-Aviv, Israel

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior ML Engineer to lead our transition from third-party LLM APIs to a fully self-hosted ecosystem by fine-tuning high-performance, domain-specific models.

Our core product is an advanced, agentic support chatbot capable of complex reasoning, API tool calling, database lookups, and orchestrating specialized LLMs for specific tasks. 

What You’ll Do:

  • Model Fine-Tuning: Design and execute fine-tuning strategies to improve model accuracy on specific domain tasks and tool-calling execution.
  • Agentic Workflows: Develop and refine the chatbot's agentic capabilities, ensuring reliable tool-use, routing, and interactions between massive LLMs and specialized SLMs.
  • Inference Optimization: Deploy and manage large-scale models using high-performance inference engines (like vLLM) to ensure low latency and high throughput for our agentic chatbot.
  • Rigorous Evaluation: Build comprehensive offline and online evaluation frameworks to constantly measure model performance and business impact through structured A/B testing.

What We’re Looking For:

Core Engineering & AI Frameworks

  • Deep experience with PyTorch and the Hugging Face ecosystem.
  • Strong Data Engineering skills: data manipulation, synthetic data generation, and active learning/margin-sampling.
  • High proficiency with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to accelerate development.

LLMs & Agents

  • Strong fundamental understanding of LLM architectures, attention mechanisms, and generation parameters.
  • Hands-on experience building Agentic systems (ReAct, function/tool calling, RAG).
  • Expertise in fine-tuning strategies (e.g., SFT, RLHF, DPO) and parameter-efficient techniques (PEFT/LoRA).

Bonus Points

  • Alignment Techniques: Experience with RLHF and DPO strategies for future reasoning-model development.
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Experience with Ray for orchestrating large-scale model deployments across multi-GPU clusters.
  • Model Quantization: Experience with memory optimization techniques like AWQ, GPTQ, or GGUF to fit 70B models efficiently onto hardware.
  • API Development: Proficiency in building robust, asynchronous microservices using FastAPI to serve model requests.
  • Experience with core MLOps practices, including dataset versioning (e.g., DVC), experiment tracking (e.g., Weights & Biases, MLflow), and model registries.
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About Navan

ABOUT TRIPACTIONS

TripActions is the fastest-growing corporate travel platform disrupting a $1.5T industry and shaping the future of business travel.

TripActions is a story of inspiration born of frustration. Road warriors and co-founders Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig believed that companies deserved a travel solution that takes the pain out of work trips –– so that their travelers can focus on being productive and meeting in-person, not wasting valuable time booking travel. So in 2015, they created TripActions. Since then, we’ve been a mission to power the face-to-face, in-person connections that move people, ideas and businesses forward.

TripActions’ platform offers a vast selection of inventory that travelers can choose from, a personalized, intuitive user interface driven by machine learning, and 24/7 proactive real human, customer support. Companies enjoy complete travel program visibility, over 30% cost savings on average and seamless integrations with their HR and expense systems.

Globally, TripActions has grown to over 600 employees across 7 offices in 4 countries. We support over 1,500 customers, with innovative brands like Lyft, Dropbox, Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, Allbirds, Robinhood and the ACLU relying on TripActions for their business travel needs. As one of Silicon Valley’s newest “unicorns”, TripActions has a valuation north of $1B and a total of $232M in funding. We’ve recently received $154M in our Series C funding round –– led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from repeat investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures and SGVC.

TripActions was recently recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2019, #12 in LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2018 and #3 in the U.S. for Happiest Employees by Comparably.

We’re redefining what it means to travel for work. Come help us build the future of business travel.

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