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BJAK · 1 month ago

Founding AI/ML Research Engineer

BJAK is a self-funded AI group focused on creating a new global consumer AI application. The Founding AI/ML Research Engineer will shape the core technical direction of the project, defining model architectures, training strategies, and scalable deployment systems.

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Responsibilities

Build end-to-end training pipelines: data → training → eval → inference
Design new model architectures or adapt open-source frontier models
Fine-tune models using state-of-the-art methods (LoRA/QLoRA, SFT, DPO, distillation)
Architect scalable inference systems using vLLM / TensorRT-LLM / DeepSpeed
Build data systems for high-quality synthetic and real-world training data
Develop alignment, safety, and guardrail strategies
Design evaluation frameworks across performance, robustness, safety, and bias
Own deployment: GPU optimization, latency reduction, scaling policies
Shape early product direction, experiment with new use cases, and build AI-powered experiences from zero
Explore frontier techniques: retrieval-augmented training, mixture-of-experts, distillation, multi-agent orchestration, multimodal models

Qualification

Deep learningTransformer architecturesPyTorchLarge model trainingDistributed training frameworksGPU optimizationSoftware engineeringOpen-source contributionsScientific computingRLHF pipelinesMultimodal modelsLarge-scale data processingResearch lab experience

Required

Strong background in deep learning and transformer architectures
Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large models (LLMs or vision models)
Proficiency with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
Experience with distributed training frameworks (DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, ZeRO, Ray)
Strong software engineering skills — writing robust, production-grade systems
Experience with GPU optimization: memory efficiency, quantization, mixed precision
Comfortable owning ambiguous, zero-to-one technical problems end-to-end

Preferred

Experience with LLM inference frameworks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, FasterTransformer)
Contributions to open-source ML libraries
Background in scientific computing, compilers, or GPU kernels
Experience with RLHF pipelines (PPO, DPO, ORPO)
Experience training or deploying multimodal or diffusion models
Experience in large-scale data processing (Apache Arrow, Spark, Ray)
Prior work in a research lab (Google Brain, DeepMind, FAIR, Anthropic, OpenAI)

Benefits

Insurance coverage
Flexible time off
Global travel insurance

Company

Bjak is a technology company that develops an insurance comparison platform.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Kuan Yue Ronald Lim
Executive Director
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