Institute of Foundation Models

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance AI research, cultivate the next generation of AI builders, and make significant contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, participating in the creation of groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is seeking a Developer Relations & Community Manager to empower developers to discover, build with, and maximize the utility of IFM's foundation models, including K2, JAIS, and PAN. This role involves being a hands-on technical advocate for the developer community across platforms like GitHub, Discord, and Hugging Face, and within the broader open-model ecosystem. You will be responsible for creating essential technical resources and community programs that guide developers from initial download to their first successful implementation. Furthermore, you will act as a conduit, relaying developer needs back to the research, engineering, and product teams to address challenges and ensure IFM builds what developers require.

$150k - $250k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, cultivate future AI builders, and make transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions with the potential to reshape industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing MBZUAI as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning and driving impactful discoveries.

$150k - $400k

The Institute of Foundation Models is seeking an Eval360 - Error Analysis Engineer to join their dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. This role will focus on improving and operating Eval360, a critical evaluation service that acts as a quality gate for AI models. You will be instrumental in understanding model failures, categorizing issues, and enhancing evaluation systems to detect and prevent problems before model releases. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team of researchers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, and product managers throughout the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across the full stack, including front-end interfaces, back-end pipelines, data analysis, infrastructure, databases, dashboards, and APIs, bringing strong software engineering skills and analytical judgment to translate ambiguous model failures into structured insights.

$150k - $450k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. We aim to advance research, cultivate future AI builders, and make transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on core foundation model training with world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers, addressing fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development. You will help develop groundbreaking AI solutions with the potential to reshape industries, contributing to MBZUAI's position as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning and inspiring the next generation of AI pioneers.

$100k - $140k

We are seeking a Research Scientist to focus on Agentic Data & Benchmarking. This role involves designing and executing evaluations for agentic capabilities, including multi-step reasoning, tool use, and long-horizon planning. You will build and maintain robust evaluation harnesses to ensure reliable, large-scale benchmarking against model checkpoints, identifying regressions and monitoring model health. Additionally, you will conduct experiments to understand how various factors like prompting, sampling, and environment design influence agentic performance on both internal and public benchmarks. A key part of this role is diagnosing anomalous evaluation results during training, pinpointing the root cause (model, data, harness, or infrastructure), and communicating findings clearly. You will also be responsible for sourcing, generating, and curating high-quality agentic training data, including trajectories and tool-use traces, and designing and scaling RL environments and reward signals. Managing technical relationships with external data vendors and domain experts, evaluating data quality, and developing QA frameworks to ensure data and benchmark integrity are also crucial aspects of this position. You will contribute to technical reports, research publications, and open-source benchmarks and tooling, partnering with research and product teams to translate capability goals into measurable data and evaluation artifacts.

$150k - $450k

As a Research Scientist on the Vision Language Model (VLM) team, you will be instrumental in advancing state-of-the-art multimodal foundation models. This role focuses on integrating visual understanding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities into large-scale VLM systems. You will engage in research and development covering model architectures, data strategies for pre-training and post-training, and evaluation benchmarks. The position blends advanced research with practical engineering, involving large-scale data processing, distributed training systems, and reinforcement learning for multimodal reasoning and agent development.

$150k - $450k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and managing the risks associated with foundation models. Our goal is to advance AI research, cultivate future AI developers, and make significant contributions to a knowledge-based economy. You will work on cutting-edge foundation model training with leading researchers, data scientists, and engineers, addressing critical challenges in AI development and contributing to AI solutions that can transform industries. The AllWorld Team, within the Institute of Foundation Models, is developing PAN (Physical, Agentic, and Networked) world models, which are next-generation foundation models designed to enable machine intelligence beyond language. Our mission is to overcome the core challenges of world modeling and establish a new framework for next-generation machine reasoning.

$150k - $450k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As a member of the Diffusion LLM Team, you will play a central role in designing, building, and releasing industrial-scale Diffusion Large Language Models. This involves developing and releasing diffusion-based LLMs that push the speed-quality frontier at scale, matching autoregressive model quality while enabling faster generation, and improving inference-time scaling relative to standard LLMs. You will collaborate closely with researchers and engineers across architecture, training, and infrastructure to translate research ideas into high-impact model releases for next-generation LLMs.

$150k - $400k

The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is seeking a deeply technical Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to co-design and optimize the communication stack for large-scale distributed training, including hybrid parallelism and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) workloads. This systems-level engineering position focuses on performance engineering, distributed debugging, and communication-runtime co-design, aiming to improve performance, fault tolerance, and scalability across model architecture, communication systems, runtime, and hardware topology for ultra-scale GPU supercomputing systems.

$200k - $400k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. We aim to advance research, nurture AI builders, and drive contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers and engineers, tackling fundamental challenges in AI development and contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions. As a member of the Agents team, you will address research and engineering challenges in training advanced agentic language models capable of reasoning and tool use for computer-based tasks. This involves developing high-quality training datasets, robust evaluations, and innovative reinforcement learning infrastructure, algorithms, and environments. We seek candidates with expertise across the research-engineering spectrum, from algorithmic research to large-scale systems and optimization.

$150k - $450k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and managing foundation models. We aim to advance research, cultivate future AI builders, and contribute to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers and engineers, addressing fundamental challenges in AI development and creating groundbreaking solutions. Your strategic problem-solving skills will be key to establishing MBZUAI as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning and driving impactful discoveries.

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and managing foundation models. We aim to advance AI research, cultivate future AI leaders, and drive innovation in the knowledge economy. As a Research Scientist in Reinforcement Learning, you will be instrumental in shaping the scientific and technical direction for developing emergent capabilities within Foundation Models. This role involves pioneering novel Reinforcement Learning approaches, prototyping new learning methods, contributing to large-scale RL training infrastructure, and producing high-quality, replicable code for public release. You will also build and maintain a research portfolio through collaborations.

$150k - $450k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance AI research, cultivate future AI leaders, and make significant contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. Interns will work on core foundation model training with leading researchers, data scientists, and engineers, addressing fundamental challenges in AI development and contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions with the potential to transform industries. This role requires strategic and innovative problem-solving to establish MBZUAI as a leader in high-performance computing for deep learning and drive impactful discoveries.

$100k - $140k

The Institute of Foundation Models is a research lab dedicated to building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. We aim to advance AI research, nurture future AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As a Research Scientist focusing on data-centric large language model (LLM) development, you will push the boundaries of how LLMs reason, retrieve, and interact with external information. Your work will involve identifying, collecting, and organizing datasets to enable complex reasoning tasks, and developing scalable systems and tooling to integrate research with engineering, directly impacting the performance and reliability of intelligent systems.

$150k - $450k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As a Data Engineer specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and large-scale data processing, you will be instrumental in enabling researchers by quickly gathering, curating, and preparing high-quality datasets to support cutting-edge NLP research. You will achieve this through efficient and scalable engineering practices, including web crawling, LLM-generated content refinement, and robust data pipelines, primarily leveraging Python and related technologies.

$150k - $450k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers, tackling fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development. You will participate in the development of groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries, establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training, alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers, tackling the most fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development. You will participate in the development of groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills will be instrumental in establishing MBZUAI as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning, driving impactful discoveries that inspire the next generation of AI pioneers.

$150k - $450k