Machine Learning - Infrastructure
- Location
- San Francisco
- Workplace
- On-site
- Compensation
- $200k – $400k + equity
- Visa
- Visa Sponsorship Available
About this role
Our mission is general causal intelligence, AI that is capable of (1) predicting the future and (2) identifying the optimal actions to change that future.
To achieve this breakthrough, we are building a Large Physics foundation Model (LPM) because domains governed by physics have inherent cause and effect relationships, unlike visual or textual data.
Weather is the ideal training ground for an LPM. It is the most well-observed physical system, offering rapid, objective ground truth feedback from sensory observations and data at a scale that dwarfs what is used to train today’s LLMs.
We look for infrastructure engineers who are excited to tackle unsolved problems. Our training and inference challenges demand deep expertise in setting up distributed training clusters and optimizing performance for large models. If you have experience building large-scale ML infrastructure in related fields such as language and vision models, robotics, biology -- join us on this mission.
Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and maintain large distributed ML training and inference clusters
Develop efficient, scalable end-to-end pipelines to manage petabyte-scale datasets and model training throughout the entire ML lifecycle
Research and test various training approaches including parallelization techniques and numerical precision trade-offs across different model scales
Analyze, profile and debug low-level GPU operations to optimize performance
Stay up-to-date on research to bring new ideas to work
What we’re looking for
We value a relentless approach to problem-solving, rapid execution, and the ability to quickly learn in unfamiliar domains.
Strong grasp of state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference workloads
Demonstrated proficiency with distributed training frameworks (e.g. FSDP, DeepSpeed) to train large foundation models
Knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and their ML/AI service offerings
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Background working on distributed task management systems and scalable model serving & deployment architectures
Understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and version control best practices for ML systems
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
The team is composed of researchers and engineers from self-driving, drug discovery, and robotics.
Team members have experience from Google DeepMind, Cruise, Waymo, Meta, Nabla Bio, and Apple.
They believe general causal intelligence will be the most important technical breakthrough for civilization.
The culture is mission-driven and ambitiously oriented toward civilization-scale breakthroughs.
The organization emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration across diverse domain backgrounds and industry experience.
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