ML Research Engineer, ML Systems

Overview

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 evaluation of data quality.

Scale is uniquely positioned at the heart of the field of AI as an indispensable provider of training and evaluation data and end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle. You will work closely across Scale's ML teams and researchers to build the foundation platform that supports all our ML research and development. You will be building and optimizing the platform to enable our next generation of LLM training, inference and data curation.

If you are excited about shaping the future AI via fundamental innovations, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Build, profile and optimize our training and inference framework
• Collaborate with ML teams to accelerate their research and development and enable them to develop the next generation of models and data curation
• Research and integrate state-of-the-art technologies to optimize our ML system

Qualifications

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

Nice to have

• Demonstrated expertise in post-training methods &/or next generation use cases for large language models including instruction tuning, RLHF, tool use, reasoning, agents, and multimodal, etc.

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Reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$200,800 —$251,000 USD

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About Us

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world\'s most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

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