Pre-Training Research Engineer — Data & ML Systems

Bison; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 350.000 - 475.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Relocation assistance

Descrizione del lavoro

Thinking Machines is seeking pre-training researchers to join a blended research and data-engineering team in San Francisco. You will design methods to source, curate, and analyze pre-training data, build automated pipelines, and contribute both scientific insights and production-grade code.

This evergreen role supports frontier AI development. You’ll work across data, ML, and systems, writing high‑performance code and reading technical reports.

Competenze

• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with a deep learning framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding.
• Clarity in communication, an ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing.

Mansioni

• Design and implement techniques for curating, sourcing, and filtering large-scale text, code, and multimodal data.
• Develop data quality metrics and analysis to measure coverage, diversity, and representativeness across sources.
• Collaborate with research and infrastructure teams to scale data processing systems efficiently and reproducibly.
• Investigate and mitigate data risks, including privacy, safety, and licensing concerns, to ensure responsible and ethical data use.
• Continuously evaluate dataset improvements by analyzing their downstream effects on model learning and behavior.
• Publish and present research that moves the entire community forward. Share code, datasets, and insights that accelerate progress across industry and academia.

Conoscenze

Python

Deep learning framework

Distributed training

Communication

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (CS/ML/Physics/Math)

PhD (preferred) in CS/ML/Physics/Math or related

Descrizione del lavoro

Thinking Machines is seeking pre-training researchers to join a blended research and data-engineering team in San Francisco. You will design methods to source, curate, and analyze pre-training data, build automated pipelines, and contribute both scientific insights and production-grade code.

This evergreen role supports frontier AI development. You’ll work across data, ML, and systems, writing high‑performance code and reading technical reports.