AI Research Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Fri, Jun 26, 2026
This job expires in: 22 days
Job Summary
To push the boundaries of AI model quality and efficiency, the full-time Research Engineer will build fine-tuning pipelines, develop benchmarking frameworks, and collaborate on hardware-aware optimization in a remote work environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Research and implement techniques to accelerate AI inference, focusing on model quality, latency, throughput, and power consumption tradeoffs
- Collaborate with hardware, compiler, and quantization teams to ensure algorithmic improvements maximize throughput and minimize power on silicon
- Develop profiling tools and benchmarking frameworks to identify compute bottlenecks and measure model quality and efficiency metrics
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in ML research, applied ML, or ML systems
- Strong fundamentals in Python and PyTorch
- Hands-on experience with modern AI models, including transformers and diffusion models
- Experience in fine-tuning large models and building training/evaluation pipelines
- Deep understanding of transformers, attention mechanisms, and optimization techniques
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