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Senior Research Engineer, Foundation Model Training Infrastructure

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-01-09 → 2026-08-01

Core

Designing and maintaining large-scale distributed training systems for multi-modal foundation models supporting humanoid robot learning and physics simulation.

Role type

Senior/Principal IC infrastructure engineer (foundation model training)

Builds

Scalable training pipelines, data loaders, and monitoring tools for Project GR00T and multimodal foundation models

Domain

Robotics, Embodied AI, Large-scale MLOps

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed training system design, GPU cluster optimization, CUDA programming, Kubernetes orchestration, Python, C++, HPC environments, SLURM

Preferred skills

Tech lead experience, LLM training infrastructure, open-source AI framework contributions, top-tier AI conference publications

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, CUDA, Kubernetes, SLURM

Responsibilities

Design large-scale distributed training systems, optimize GPU/cluster utilization, implement scalable data loaders, develop monitoring/debugging tools, integrate model architectures into pipelines

Seniority

Senior/Principal, hands-on IC with potential for team coordination

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