Member of Technical Staff, ML Performance

Odyssey; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An AI lab in Santa Clara is seeking a skilled software engineer with over 8 years of experience to optimize machine learning models for real-time applications. The role involves designing distributed training strategies, collaborating with ML researchers, and developing tools for performance enhancement. Ideal candidates have a deep understanding of modern machine learning architectures and proficiency with PyTorch and NVIDIA GPU ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work in ML performance.
• Deep insight into modern machine learning architectures.
• Proficiency with PyTorch and optimization stacks.

Responsibilities

• Optimize models for real-time use by hundreds of thousands of users.
• Design and implement distributed training strategies.
• Develop tools to identify performance bottlenecks.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Machine learning performance

Problem-solving skills

PyTorch proficiency

Deep understanding of ML architectures

Tools

NVIDIA GPU ecosystems

Triton

Job description

Who we are

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models—a new form of multimodal intelligence unlocking entirely new consumer, enterprise, and intelligence applications. World models are the next major frontier in AI, and Odyssey is leading the way with breakthrough models like Odyssey-2 Pro.

What we're looking for

We’re seeking those who are obsessed with gaining every last drop of performance from complex systems. We're building inference infrastructure to scale to hundreds of thousands of users within a year, while also working with massive, ever-growing datasets and models in training. Your focus will be ensuring our models deliver exceptional speed, reliability, and scalability in both the training and inference phases, optimizing efficiency to minimize TFLOPS per user and training compute cost.

What you'll do

• Optimize models that will be used in real-time by hundreds of thousands of users.
• Design and implement distributed training strategies to reduce training time and resource consumption on large GPU clusters.
• Partner with our elite team of ML researchers and engineers to ensure model architectures are highly performant from conception.
• Develop sophisticated tools to identify performance bottlenecks and stability issues in both training and serving environments.
• Pioneer innovative approaches, frameworks, and system designs that enhance performance metrics across our model development and inference infrastructure.
• Have significant autonomy in technical decisions.
• Use the latest-generation GPUs.

Who you are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant work in ML performance.
• Deep insight into modern machine learning architectures with a natural instinct for performance optimization, particularly distributed training and inference.
• Track record of owning projects end to end.
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to acquire new skills as needed.
• Proficiency with PyTorch (or TF/JAX) and Triton as well as NVIDIA GPU ecosystems and optimization stacks.
• Highly metric-based.