Research Engineer, Discovery

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale infrastructure systems to support AI scientist training, evaluation, and deployment across distributed environments
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks impeding progress toward scientific capabilities
• Develop robust and reliable evaluation frameworks for measuring progress towards scientific AGI
• Build scalable and performant VM/sandboxing/container architectures to safely execute long-horizon AI tasks and scientific workflows
• Collaborate to translate experimental requirements into production-ready infrastructure
• Develop large scale data pipelines to handle advanced language model training requirements
• Optimize large scale training and inference pipelines for stable and efficient reinforcement learning

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 6+ years of highly-relevant experience in infrastructure engineering with demonstrated expertise in large-scale distributed systems
• Are a strong communicator and enjoy working collaboratively
• Possess deep knowledge of performance optimization techniques and system architectures for high-throughput ML workloads
• Have experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration at scale
• Have proven track record of building large-scale data pipelines and distributed storage systems
• Excel at diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure challenges in production environments
• Can work effectively across the full ML stack from data pipelines to performance optimization
• Have experience collaborating with other researchers to scale experimental ideas
• Thrive in fast-paced environments and can rapidly iterate from experimentation to production

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience with language model training infrastructure and distributed ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.)
• Background in building infrastructure for AI research labs or large-scale ML organizations
• Knowledge of GPU/TPU architectures and language model inference optimization
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with VM and container orchestration
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools and experiment management systems
• History working with large scale reinforcement learning
• Comfort with large scale data pipelines (Beam, Spark, Dask)

Annual Salary: $350,000 — $850,000 USD

Education requirements: At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.