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AI/LLM Engineer (1099 Contract)

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building, launching, and scaling technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. They are focused on developing powerful tools and solutions to address the nation's most pressing problems through innovation.

Red Cell Partners

Employee count: 51-200

United States only

About Us

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

Overview

We’re looking for an adaptable AI/LLM engineer who thrives in ambiguity—someone comfortable jumping into new problem spaces, rapidly learning what’s needed, and shipping pragmatic solutions. You’ll turn fuzzy ideas into working prototypes and then into reliable, scalable systems that create real value.

What you'll do:

  • Tackle open-ended AI problems: clarify goals, propose approach options, and choose sensible trade-offs.
  • Stand up end-to-end workflows—from data wrangling and evaluation through deployment and monitoring.
  • Build quick experiments and MVPs to de-risk unknowns, then harden them for production.
  • Create lightweight tooling that helps others explore, test, and iterate on AI features.
  • Work across teams (security, infra, product, domain experts) to ship responsibly in real-world environments, including sensitive contexts.
  • Document decisions, assumptions, and risks so others can build on your work.

What you bring:

  • U.S. citizenship.
  • Solid software fundamentals and strong Python skills; you write clear, maintainable code and tests.
  • 2–5 years of hands-on experience building and shipping ML/AI or NLP-driven features (titles less important than impact).
  • A generalist mindset: you can learn unfamiliar libraries, models, or stacks quickly and pick the right level of sophistication for the problem.
  • Practical evaluation chops: you design metrics, create test sets, and know when something is “good enough” to pilot vs. needs more rigor.
  • Data instincts: you’re comfortable sourcing, cleaning, labeling, and shaping both structured and unstructured data.
  • Bias for action and ownership in fast-moving, resource-constrained settings.
  • Thoughtful approach to safety, privacy, and policy constraints.

Nice to have:

  • Experience building knowledge- or retrieval-oriented applications.
  • Exposure to edge or low-resource deployments.
  • Comfort interfacing with stakeholders and non-technical users.

How we work:

  • Start small, learn fast: prototype, measure, iterate.
  • Prefer simple, observable systems over “state-of-the-art” complexity.
  • Write things down; leave a trail others can follow.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

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At Red Cell Partners, we are at the forefront of technological innovation, dedicated to building, launching, and scaling technology-led companies that address critical challenges in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Our mission is driven by a profound sense of duty and an unwavering belief in the transformative power of innovation to create a new era of technological advancement and renewal for our nation's most vital industries. We recognize that sectors such as healthcare, defense, and cyber systems are currently overburdened and in urgent need of reinvigoration. Red Cell is strategically positioned to seize this opportunity, leveraging our exceptional team, specialized skills, extensive network, and deep experience to foster lasting, positive change. We are not merely an investment firm or an incubator; we are a hybrid entity, an asset class of our own, that actively generates early-stage concepts and meticulously shapes them to meet market demands, often for dual-use customers, thereby de-risking the business model from the outset.

Our innovation focus is exemplified by our incubated companies. For instance, Claros is revolutionizing power management for data centers, tackling the exponential growth in energy demand fueled by AI by developing advanced hardware and software to optimize energy delivery and consumption, thereby enhancing compute performance and efficiency. Hunted Labs leverages artificial intelligence to provide unprecedented end-to-end visibility into software supply chains, enabling organizations to proactively identify and eliminate malicious threats. DEFCON AI develops cutting-edge modeling, simulation, and analysis tools to provide operationally relevant insights for decision-making in global mobility and logistics, particularly in contested environments. Furthermore, Zephyr AI, launched in 2021, is committed to radically reshaping precision medicine in oncology and cardiometabolic disease by marrying one of the world's most comprehensive healthcare datasets with advanced AI algorithms to accelerate drug discovery and improve patient outcomes. Through these and other ventures, Red Cell Partners is committed to ushering in groundbreaking technologies and fostering industry advancements that have a tangible, positive impact on society and future generations.

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