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Sr. Model Engineer, RL Training Framework

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14 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement systems supporting reinforcement learning workloads from small-scale ablations to production training runs.
  • Profile, debug, and optimize end-to-end training performance.
  • Improve the scalability and observability of the reinforcement learning stack.

Requirements

  • Write production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++.
  • Have experience training large models, including pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning of neural networks with 1B+ parameters.
  • Preferred: experience building, debugging, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale LLM training infrastructure.
  • Preferred: experience with RL numerics and strong knowledge of reinforcement learning techniques.
  • Be comfortable working in unfamiliar areas and solving problems across the technology stack.

Benefits

  • $180,000–$400,000 base salary.
  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
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