Base Salary
$295k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Keep large-scale reinforcement-learning training runs moving by resolving urgent engineering and infrastructure problems.
- Debug issues across training systems, inference, orchestration, scaling, and distributed infrastructure.
- Solve technical problems involving scaling experiments, training reliability, distributed systems, latency, cost, and production robustness.
- Improve reliability and efficiency for reinforcement-learning training runs.
- Support infrastructure-heavy integrations such as multi-agent capabilities and memory.
- Convert recurring operational issues into improved tools, systems, processes, or abstractions.
- Collaborate with research, infrastructure, and partner teams during tight model-run timelines.
- Debug failures spanning model behavior, training data, RL systems, evaluation infrastructure, serving systems, and agent harnesses, then develop durable fixes.
Requirements
- Strong generalist engineering ability with experience in some layer of machine-learning infrastructure.
- Experience with reinforcement learning, inference, scaling, training systems, orchestration, or adjacent ML infrastructure.
- Ability to learn quickly and work across unfamiliar technical layers.
- Strong debugging skills, high ownership, low ego, and excellent communication.
- Ability to work effectively in messy, ambiguous areas and under tight timelines.
- Nice-to-have: experience supporting large-scale model training, async reinforcement-learning systems, or high-throughput ML infrastructure.
- Nice-to-have: experience debugging distributed systems across GPUs, networking, orchestration, or inference stacks.
- Nice-to-have: background in performance optimization, scaling, or production-critical infrastructure.
- Nice-to-have: experience working directly with researchers or fast-moving model teams.
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