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Research Engineer/Scientist(all levels), Efficient Models

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Design and implement efficient models for large-scale generative AI, focusing on model distillation and compression to enable scalable training and deployment.

Role type

Research Engineer/Scientist (Efficient Models)

Builds

Scalable generative models (image/video generation, VLM) optimized for efficiency

Domain

Generative AI, Computer Vision, Multimodal Understanding

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Model distillation, model compression, quantization, step distillation, cfg distillation, generative modeling, diffusion models, autoregressive models, computational bottleneck analysis, model acceleration, hardware-efficient inference

Preferred skills

Ph.D. in GenAI/MLSys, reinforcement learning training methods (RLHF, DPO, GRPO), MoE architectures, window attention, efficient model design

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX

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