Seer · 6 hours ago
Research Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelSeer is a deep-tech startup on a mission to build a foundational AI model from scratch. They are seeking a Research Engineer with hands-on experience in large language models to lead the development of model architecture and training pipelines.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Lead and contribute to core development of a foundational language model, including model architecture, training strategies, and evaluation
Implement, optimize, and scale pretraining, fine-tuning, and post-training pipelines for large-scale models
Collaborate closely with research scientists and ML engineers to push the boundaries of LLM capabilities
Conduct experiments to improve model performance, generalization, and safety
Build reusable infrastructure and tools for training, evaluation, and deployment of next-generation LLMs
Qualification
Required
Strong hands-on experience with large language models, ideally with contributions to pretraining, fine-tuning, or RLHF
Expertise in PyTorch or JAX, distributed training, and large-scale ML pipelines
Solid understanding of modern LLM architectures and training techniques
Ability to translate research insights into scalable engineering solutions
Passion for building models from the ground up and contributing to a high-performing, collaborative team
Company
Seer
At Seer, we offer bespoke talent solutions, specialising in placing professionals in emerging tech industries such as AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning, AI Research, Crypto, and Software Engineering.
Founded in 2019
11-50 employees
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