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Research Engineer, Frontier Capabilities

One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $189,000–$189,000🗓 2026-05-14 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design, build, and optimize systems for training large language models to run long-horizon scientific discovery tasks, spanning post-training stacks from SFT to asynchronous RL.

Role type

Research Engineer (Frontier Capabilities)

Builds

Post-training infrastructure, agentic harnesses, and scientific benchmarks for autonomous scientific discovery.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Scientific Discovery

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Python, distributed ML training frameworks, large-scale model training techniques, cloud or HPC environment, software engineering

Preferred skills

C++/CUDA, open-source ML framework contributions, RL post-training, MoE architectures, large-scale scientific datasets

Technologies

Megatron-LM, TorchTitan, DeepSpeed, Ray

Responsibilities

Profile and optimize GPU utilization for 100B+ parameter training runs; build modular post-training workflows; lead experimentation on reasoning model development; design scientific agentic benchmarks; train models for planning and tool use over extended horizons

Seniority

Individual Contributor (IC), hands-on engineering

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