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Featherless AI · 15 hours ago

AI Researcher — AI Architecture Research

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level

Featherlessai is seeking an AI Researcher focused on AI architecture research to help design and advance next-generation model architectures. The role involves publishing novel research while collaborating with engineers to implement ideas into real systems.

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Responsibilities

Research and design novel AI architectures (e.g. alternatives to standard Transformer designs, long-context models, efficient sequence modeling, hybrid architectures)
Explore architectural improvements for scalability, efficiency, and stability
Prototype and evaluate new architectures through ablations, benchmarks, and empirical studies
Author and co-author research papers for top ML conferences and journals
Collaborate with engineering teams to translate research into training and inference systems
Stay current with state-of-the-art research and identify promising directions early

Qualification

Machine learning researchNeural network architecturesPyTorchJAXPublication record in ML/AISequence modelsAttentionTraining dynamicsOptimizationExperiment designStartup environment adaptabilityCommunication skills

Required

Strong background in machine learning research, with a focus on model architecture
Publication record in ML/AI venues (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM, ACL, EMNLP, arXiv)
Deep understanding of: Neural network architectures, Sequence models and attention mechanisms, Training dynamics and optimization
Hands-on experience with PyTorch or JAX
Ability to reason rigorously, design clean experiments, and communicate results clearly
Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment

Preferred

Experience with non-Transformer architectures (e.g. RNN-based, state-space, hybrid models)
Work on long-context or memory-efficient models
Open-source research contributions
Experience bridging research and production systems
Background in efficient training or inference-aware architecture design

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Meaningful equity

Company

Featherless AI

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We enable serverless inference via our GPU orchestration and model load-balancing system.
dateFounded in 2023
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://featherless.ai/

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$5M
Key Investors
Airbus Ventures
2025-10-31Series A
2025-03-17Seed· $5M
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