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Research Engineer, Discovery

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $350,000–$350,000🗓 2026-04-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and implement large-scale infrastructure systems to support AI scientist training, evaluation, and deployment across distributed environments.

Role type

Senior IC research engineer (ML infrastructure)

Builds

Large-scale data pipelines, VM/sandboxing/container architectures, and evaluation frameworks for scientific AGI

Domain

AI safety and alignment research infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

large-scale distributed systems, performance optimization, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), data pipeline engineering, complex infrastructure debugging, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

language model training infrastructure, distributed ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX), GPU/TPU architecture knowledge, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), workflow orchestration, reinforcement learning

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Beam, Spark, Dask

Responsibilities

Design and implement large-scale infrastructure systems for AI scientist training and deployment; Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks; Develop robust evaluation frameworks for scientific AGI progress; Build scalable VM/sandboxing/container architectures; Translate experimental requirements into production-ready infrastructure; Optimize large-scale training and inference pipelines for reinforcement learning

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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