ML Platform Lead - LLM Training & Inference

Scale AI

York and North Yorkshire

On-site

GBP 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a software engineer to build and optimize our large-scale training and inference platform. You will work with ML researchers and engineers to accelerate R&D and enable next-generation LLM training, evaluation, and data curation.

You will contribute to a distributed ML system stack, profile performance, and collaborate across teams to push the frontier of AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering skills with distributed systems experience.
  • Experience with CUDA, PyTorch, transformers and related tools.
  • Experience with post-training methods such as RLHF/RLVR and related algorithms.
  • Excellent communication across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build, profile and optimize our training and inference framework.
  • Collaborate with ML and research teams to accelerate R&D and enable next-gen models.
  • Research and integrate state-of-the-art technologies to optimize our ML system.

Skills

Strong software engineering
Distributed systems
Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CUDA
PyTorch
Transformers
Flash attention

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a software engineer to build and optimize our large-scale training and inference platform. You will work with ML researchers and engineers to accelerate R&D and enable next-generation LLM training, evaluation, and data curation.

You will contribute to a distributed ML system stack, profile performance, and collaborate across teams to push the frontier of AI infrastructure.

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