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Research Engineer - Model Evaluation & MLOps

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Base Salary

$155k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Integrate internal and open-weight language and multimodal models into GPU evaluation and inference environments.
  • Build automated benchmarks for model quality, latency, throughput, memory usage, and systems performance.
  • Create standardized and reproducible comparisons across models, baselines, and runtime configurations.
  • Build and maintain experiment tracking, model registries, and versioning for models, datasets, and evaluation configurations.
  • Automate reproducible workflows from research checkpoints to validated deployments.
  • Monitor model quality and systems performance and diagnose failures or regressions across model and deployment pipelines.
  • Build reusable tools for researchers to launch evaluations, compare experiments, and reproduce results.
  • Profile end-to-end model workloads and collaborate with distributed systems, inference, and GPU kernel engineers on performance issues.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional ML or software engineering experience, including production ML systems, ML platforms, or MLOps infrastructure.
  • Strong Python and software engineering skills with experience building reliable production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX and understanding of modern language or multimodal model architectures.
  • Experience with model evaluation or benchmarking and model lifecycle workflows such as experiment tracking, versioning, deployment, or monitoring.
  • Experience running, benchmarking, and debugging models with GPU inference runtimes such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM in containerized cloud or on-premises environments.
  • Ability to document systems clearly and collaborate across research, infrastructure, and product engineering teams.
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Familiarity with Hugging Face Transformers or similar model libraries is preferred.
  • Experience enabling models on AMD GPUs and ROCm is preferred.
  • Contributions to open-source evaluation, model, or ML infrastructure projects are preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401k plan.
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Competitive salary and equity.

Tech Stack

Hugging Face TransformersPythonPyTorchTensorFlow
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