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Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Tinker

San Francisco

$350k-$475k / year

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💼 About This Role

You'll design and scale the infrastructure behind Tinker to enable seamless model fine-tuning for internal teams and external customers. Your work will optimize GPU utilization, multi-tenant scheduling, and developer-friendly APIs, ensuring users can focus on research without infrastructure concerns. This role sits at the intersection of large-scale training systems and product infrastructure, with opportunities to publish and open-source your learnings.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Design and implement distributed job orchestration for multi-tenant workloads.
  • Optimize GPU utilization, throughput, and reliability across clusters.
  • Develop reusable frameworks to improve transparency, reproducibility, and performance.
  • Co-design fine-tuning challenges into product features with researchers and engineers.

📋 Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science or related field.
  • Understanding of deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or JAX.
  • Thrive in a highly collaborative environment with cross-functional partners.
  • Strong engineering skills with ability to debug complex codebases.

✨ Nice to Have

  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration for GPU workloads.
  • Background in multi-tenant platform design and storage systems for ML artifacts.
  • Contributions to ML systems OSS like PyTorch/DeepSpeed/XLA.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏥 Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
  • 👶 Paid parental leave
  • 🚚 Relocation support
  • 💰 Generous compensation

📨 Hiring Process

This is an evergreen role; applications reviewed continuously, and you may reapply after 6 months.

🚩 Heads Up

  • Evergreen role with no immediate opening may lead to delayed response.
  • High experience level expected given senior salary range.
  • Vague requirement: 'thrive in a highly collaborative environment' lacks measurable criteria.
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