RecruitSeq · 2 days ago
Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$210K/yr - $400K/yrRecruitSeq is a cutting-edge AI startup in the Bay Area developing highly efficient foundational models for real-world deployment across devices. As a Member of Technical Staff, you’ll drive innovation on large-scale model training, infrastructure, and optimization while collaborating closely with a small team of seasoned researchers and engineers.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and optimize large-scale pretraining and post-training pipelines for language models
Tackle challenges in model parallelism, distributed training, and low-level hardware/software co-design
Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot massive training and inference workloads end-to-end
Collaborate on advancing core model architectures, inference optimizations, and custom hardware design
Contribute to open-source community initiatives and research publications
Analyze and streamline data pipelines, instruction data curation, and evaluation methods
Apply advanced optimization theory to improve model performance
Qualification
Required
Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
Hands-on experience in machine learning research centered on LLMs, efficient AI systems, or large-scale model training
Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Expertise with distributed training, parallelization strategies, and large-scale computational infrastructure
Understanding of low-level GPU optimizations, CUDA, or similar technologies
Preferred
Previous work at leading research labs or high-impact contributions to community AI projects
Experience with custom hardware, FPGA/ASIC design, or maximizing training throughput
Familiarity with open-source inference engines (e.g., llama.cpp, vllm, triton)
Academic publications in optimization, LLM training, or AI infrastructure
Prior work optimizing models for edge or device-level deployment
Company
RecruitSeq
RecruitSeq is a specialized recruiting firm for founder-led AI/ML startups.
Founded in 2025
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase