Senior Research / AI / ML Engineer

San Francisco, CA (in office 5 days a week)

$180K-$220K + equity + full benefits

My client is an early stage research and engineering team focused on advancing model training and applied artificial intelligence. The founding group includes engineers and scientists from leading research labs and high growth startups, now building the next generation of reasoning and learning systems.

They are hiring multiple senior engineers to help design, train, and deploy large scale models. The position blends hands on technical work with startup style autonomy. You will build and improve training infrastructure, optimize model performance, and contribute to research efforts while shipping production ready Python and PyTorch code.

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize training systems for real world use cases
Contribute to research and experimentation in AI and ML
Ship reliable, high performance code used in production
Collaborate with a small, world class team of engineers and researchers
Translate ambiguous goals into clear technical milestones

Requirements

Strong experience with model training beyond API level usage
Proficiency in Python and PyTorch or similar frameworks
2 to 5 years of relevant industry experience or equivalent depth
Excellent communication and self direction
Comfortable working in ambiguity and fast moving environments

Nice to have

Prior founder or early stage experience
Exposure to distributed training or model optimization
Background in computational research or scientific data

Why join

Work directly with a world class team solving challenging problems
Build systems that push the boundaries of applied AI
Competitive pay, meaningful equity, and full benefits
Profitable, well funded, and growing quickly

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