# Research Engineering Lead

**Company:** [Lovable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lovable)
**Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
**Role:** AI Research
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Transformer Models, Model Fine-Tuning, Code Generation, Multimodal Models, Model Alignment, Llm Evaluation, Training Pipelines, Knowledge Distillation, Synthetic Data Generation, React, Go, Rust, AWS, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Leads hands-on research and engineering to improve frontier language models for AI software engineering, owning experiments, evaluation, training, and optimization end to end. The role also mentors researchers and engineers and partners across research, product, and infrastructure teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and execute experiments grounded in real coding and product use cases.
- Define, track, and optimize product-centric LLM performance metrics.
- Partner with engineering leads to hire and develop a world-class team.
- Own training pipelines, distillation workflows, and synthetic data generation systems.
- Work closely with infrastructure and product engineers to scale and ship model improvements.
- Build ensembles of LLMs into products.

## Requirements
- Experience leading or contributing to cutting-edge LLM research at top AI labs.
- Experience fine-tuning large-scale transformer models on code, natural language, and multimodal datasets.
- Experience developing state-of-the-art models for code generation.
- Strong experimental design and evaluation skills.
- Natural leadership ability and a focus on building high-performing technical teams.
- Experience mentoring researchers and engineers and leading collaborative projects across research, engineering, and product teams.
- English proficiency.

## Nice to Have
- Publications at top ML/AI conferences on LLMs, code intelligence, or agentic reasoning.

## Technology
- React
- Golang
- Rust
- Cloudflare
- Google Cloud Run
- AWS
- Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines
- Observability
- Infrastructure as code

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