Mohit Parmar
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EXPERIENCE

From models to the world.

A career connecting research, product and the people who make AI work in practice.

CURRENT

May 2026 — Present

Calgary / New York

Forward Deployed Engineer

I build and deploy AI agents for institutions, from their first deployment to managing 20 agents. I lead a client portfolio representing millions in annual recurring revenue.

Applied AIDeploymentHigher education

Sep 2024 — Apr 2026

San Francisco

Team acquired by NVIDIA

Member of Technical Staff

Helped build and launch publicly available AI models and training datasets, working across data quality, evaluation, tooling and product release. Also served as interim Head of Operations.

Co-authored research with Ashish Vaswani, a coauthor of “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind modern AI.

AI models & dataQuality & evaluationProduct launches
From research to release
#1 trending

Rnj-1 reached the top of its Hugging Face category, where developers discover and share AI models.

Text-generation models under 256B parameters · reported by Essential AI following release
  • AI for the wider community. Helped build and release Rnj-1 and Essential-Web: publicly available AI models and training data.
  • Quality from data to launch. Led expert data validation and release work, including the launch website, blog and rebrand; supported evaluation and tooling.
  • Experience I bring to clients. Evaluating AI quality, choosing suitable tools and turning promising capabilities into dependable workflows.

Mar 2023 — Aug 2024

San Francisco

Product Operations Lead

Helped build the retail vertical, leading five product launches and enterprise implementation. Built teams, analytics and AI-assisted workflows to support operations at scale.

Product operationsRetailTeam building

Aug 2022 — Mar 2023

San Francisco

Product Manager · RLHF Operations

Built products and workflows for reinforcement learning from human feedback, connecting contributors, customers and engineers across large-scale AI data operations.

AI productHuman feedbackOperations

EARLY FOUNDATIONS

Analytics & software engineering

May — Dec 2019

Software engineering

Jun — Sep 2020

Business intelligence engineering

May — Aug 2021

16 months of work experience alongside my degrees.