ML Research Engineer, ML Systems

$190k - $237k • Remote • San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY

Posted 7d ago

Job Location

San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY

Tech Stack

Remote Work Policy

Fully remote

Categories

LLM Engineer

About the job

Scale's ML platform (RLXF) team builds our internal distributed framework for large language model training and inference. The platform powers MLEs, researchers, data scientists, and operators for fast and automatic training and evaluation of LLMs, as well as data quality evaluation. You will work closely across Scale’s ML teams and researchers to build the foundation platform that supports all our ML research and development, enabling the next generation of LLM training, inference, and data curation.

Responsibilities

  • Build, profile, and optimize the training and inference framework.
  • Collaborate with ML teams to accelerate their research and development.
  • Integrate state-of-the-art technologies to optimize the ML system.

Requirements

  • Strong excitement about system optimization.
  • Experience with multi-node LLM training and inference.
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed ML systems.
  • Strong software engineering skills, proficient in frameworks and tools such as CUDA, Pytorch, transformers, flash attention.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to operate in a cross-functional team environment.

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Generous PTO.
  • Commuter stipend (potential).

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