Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer, Data
Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 1y ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Machine Learning Engineer
About the job
Liquid AI, a rapidly scaling company spun out of MIT CSAIL, is developing general-purpose AI systems designed for efficiency across various deployment targets. The Data team is crucial for powering Liquid's Foundation Models, focusing on creating high-quality, purpose-built datasets as public data sources become insufficient. This role involves treating data as a research problem, where engineers design experiments, run ablations, and measure the impact of data decisions on model quality. You will be matched to a team focusing on pre-training, post-training RL, vision-language, audio, or multimodal applications.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data processing, filtering, and selection pipelines at scale.
- Create pipelines for pretraining, midtraining, SFT, and preference optimization datasets.
- Design synthetic data generation systems using LLMs, structured prompting, and domain-specific generators.
- Design and run evaluations and ablations to measure dataset's impact on model performance.
- Monitor public datasets across text, vision, and audio domains.
- Collaborate with pre-training, vision, and audio teams on modality-specific data needs.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills with the ability to quickly comprehend problems and translate them into clean, working code.
- Solid ML fundamentals: experience training, evaluating, and iterating on models (PyTorch preferred).
- Track record of learning new technical domains quickly.
- 3+ years relevant experience with an M.S., or 1+ year with a Ph.D. (5+ years with a B.S.).
- Experience with synthetic data generation, data curation, or ML evaluation.
- Experience with LLMs, VLMs, computer vision, or audio data pipelines.
- Open-source contributions or publications at top AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR).
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
- 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay.
- Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days.