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Sr. Research Engineer/Scientist(all levels), Efficient Models

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

Core

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

Role type

Senior Research Engineer/Scientist (Efficient Generative Models)

Builds

Scalable generative modeling approaches (diffusion, autoregressive) and efficient inference frameworks

Domain

Generative AI, Computer Vision, Multimodal Understanding

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Model distillation, model compression, quantization, step distillation, cfg distillation, generative AI training, LLM training, PyTorch, JAX, computational bottleneck analysis, model acceleration

Preferred skills

Ph.D. in GenAI/MLSys, image/video generation and editing, efficient architectures (MoE, window attention), reinforcement learning training methods (RLHF, DPO, GRPO)

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX

Responsibilities

Develop efficient algorithms and architectures for large-scale generative and multimodal models; Advance scalable generative modeling approaches with a focus on acceleration and efficiency.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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