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Senior Pre-training Research Engineer - Foundation Models

Sciforium

Sciforium in San Francisco is seeking a Pre-training Research Engineer to advance byte-native and multimodal foundation models. You will implement training code, scale experiments, and contribute production-grade infrastructure to deliver high-quality base models for real-world use cases. The role emphasizes rapid iteration, rigorous ablations, and collaboration with data and distributed training engineers to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability across large GPU clusters. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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