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

Seattle, 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 transfer capabilities from foundation models into smaller, deployable versions.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer/Scientist (Efficient Generative Models)

Builds

Scalable training, optimization, and deployment infrastructure for generative AI models

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, hardware-efficient inference, PyTorch, JAX

Preferred skills

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

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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