Senior Research Engineer, Model Training / Pretraining
intelixaiPascagoula, MS
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Senior Research Engineer, Model Training / Pretraining
intelixaiPascagoula, MS
11 days ago
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Senior Research Engineer Seattle, Washington | HybridThe position is a Senior Research Engineer on the model scaling team, reporting to a Director of AI Research. The work covers model training and the supporting infrastructure. Training runs use approximately 600 B300 and 1,000 H100 GPUs.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain the training stack for distributed model training across GPU clusters.
Run scaling experiments covering model architecture, data, and optimisation.
Work in one specialist area: GPU kernel development (CUDA), Mixture-of-Experts architectures, or reinforcement-learning post-training (GRPO, PPO, RLVR).Release models, code, and associated research publicly.
Requirements:
6+ years of software engineering experience.4+ years of machine-learning infrastructure experience.
Python and PyTorch.
Experience training models from scratch (pretraining). Experience limited to retrieval-augmented generation or application-level fine-tuning does not meet this requirement.
Depth in at least one of: CUDA kernels, Mixture-of-Experts, or reinforcement learning (GRPO, PPO, RLVR).Also consideredJAX.Open-source contributions.
Published research.
Experience with GPU clusters at the scale described above.
Interview process:
Hiring-manager screen — 25 minutes.
Recruiter screen — 15 minutes.
Machine-learning coding interviews — two sessions, 45 minutes each.
Machine-learning system-design interview — 45 minutes.
Technical deep-dive with the Director of AI Research — 60 minutes.
Final interview — 30 minutes.
Offer.
Base salary:
$147,000–$220,000 + strong bonus programmes in addition to base salary. Hybrid in Seattle, Washington. On-site presence is required. Fully remote is not available. Visa sponsorship is available.
Application: This search is managed by Intelix. AI.
Contact: Hasan Mohammad —.
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JOB OVERVIEW
Salary
$147,000–$220,000
Experience level
Senior
Location
Pascagoula, MS
Occupation
Computer and Information Research Scientists
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
Posted
11 days ago
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