AI Foundations Engineer — Edge & Cloud ML

42dot; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

42dot is a mobility AI company and Hyundai Motor Group's Global Software Center. We seek a top AI software engineer to develop driving and physical AI foundation models and support Aria VLA model development.

This role focuses on data curation, large-scale distributed training, and efficient inference for safety-first, connected mobility systems. You will work with Python, C++, and Golang, leveraging PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, vLLM, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python, C++, and Golang for high-throughput systems.
• Experience with PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face ecosystem, and vLLM.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, distributed training (Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed) and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Data Curation & Pretraining: design and manage massive multi-terabyte datasets.
• Distributed Model Training: scale training across GPU/TPU clusters.
• Post-Training & Alignment: instruction tuning and RLHF for safety and behavior goals.
• Inference & Optimization: model compression and serving on cloud or edge devices.
• Evaluation & Guardrails: build benchmarking and red-teaming pipelines.

Skills

Python

C++

Golang

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Hugging Face

vLLM

Kubernetes

Docker

Megatron-LM

DeepSpeed

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

42dot is a mobility AI company and Hyundai Motor Group's Global Software Center. We seek a top AI software engineer to develop driving and physical AI foundation models and support Aria VLA model development.

This role focuses on data curation, large-scale distributed training, and efficient inference for safety-first, connected mobility systems. You will work with Python, C++, and Golang, leveraging PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, vLLM, and cloud platforms.