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Research Engineer - Distributed Training

Onsite or remote • San Francisco+1🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$300,000🗓 2026-06-25

Core

Building decentralized AI training orchestration and infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning and frontier models.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (Distributed Training)

Builds

Decentralized training orchestration solutions, open-source libraries, and frameworks for distributed model training.

Domain

AI/ML Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed training techniques, compute & memory optimization, large-scale model training pipelines, MLOps, open-source framework development, technical writing

Preferred skills

Experience with frontier agentic models, async RL training, verifiable evals

Technologies

PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, MosaicML's LLM Foundry, Ray

Responsibilities

Lead research for decentralized training orchestration, optimize performance and cost of AI workloads, contribute to open-source libraries, publish research in top-tier AI conferences, distill technical outcomes into blogs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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