[Hiring] ML Researcher @Fundamental

Role Description

As part of the Research team, you will contribute to ideation, designing, implementing, and evaluating breakthrough Machine Learning models that will be deployed in the real world. Your work will be focused on the entire lifecycle of the models. Alongside the rest of the ML researchers in the team, you will be responsible for our models’ performance in every meaning of this word:

• Achieving high evaluation scores through novel architectures and training methods
• Establishing the evaluation protocols themselves
• Implementing methods that allow for efficient training and inference

The greatest research is done through solid engineering, so alongside the research you will also take part in ensuring that our research code allows swift, rapid development and testing of new ideas - both your own and the rest of the team’s.

Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with the full research cycle in Machine Learning
• Strong fundamentals of software engineering
• Strong knowledge of Python, and its ML frameworks

Requirements

• Experience with the full lifecycle of AI model development
• Experience with ML infrastructure frameworks and tools
• Experience developing new ML methods, algorithms, and models
• Experience with GPUs (or TPUs) and distributed training
• Experience scaling up models and training regimes
• Knowledge of classical ML methods and algorithms
• Knowledge of deep learning techniques

Nice to have

• Expertise within one of the following areas: Architecture Research, Distillation (Model Compression), Evaluation, Code Generation, LLMs
• Experience with foundational models, e.g. LLMs
• Published research at AI conferences
• Contributions to open source ML projects
• Experience working with tabular data / predictive analytics
• High Kaggle rank
• BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science/machine learning

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents
• Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
• Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
• A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action