Research Engineer - Language Model Pre-Training

Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California.

The Role:

As a Research Engineer - Language Model Pre-Training , you'll shape our language model roadmap through end-to-end pretraining development. You will work extremely closely with our pretraining team, who will integrate your insights into our next-generation models.

You'll Work Across:

Large-scale training runs and model parallelization

Performance optimization of our pretraining stack

Dataset collection, processing, and evaluation

Architecture and methodology research, including optimizer ablations

What We're Looking For / Requirements:

Strong engineering aptitude for rapidly implementing reliable and robust systems

Can rapidly learn new fields and are excited to implement new ideas

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale

Qualifications / Additional Skills:

Deep expertise and intuition for solving machine learning problems and training models

Experience with training on large-scale (multi-node) GPU clusters

Deep understanding of model training pipelines – including model/data parallelism, distributed optimizers, etc.

Strong grasp of proper experimental methodology for running rigorous ablations and other hypothesis testing

Understanding of large-scale, highly parallel data processing pipelines

High proficiency with PyTorch and Python.

Strong ability to dive into large pre-existing codebases and rapidly get up to speed

Published machine learning research in well-respected venues is a plus

Postgraduate degree in a scientific subject (Computer Science, EE/EECS, Math, Physics)

Why Work at Zyphra:

Our research methodology is to make grounded, methodical steps toward ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued

We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas

We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible

We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI

Benefits and Perks:

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans

Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan

Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis

In-office snacks and meals provided

Unlimited PTO and company holidays

In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment