Remote LLM Research Engineer - Part-Time

Synthires; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Synthires is seeking an experienced ML Engineer (MSc. or PhD) for a remote, part-time contractor role.

The position focuses on AI training projects, model development, training pipelines, and inference systems, with emphasis on Python, reproducible workflows, and coding agents. Responsibilities include developing and validating ML models, building data pipelines, implementing evaluation systems, and memory/performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field.
• Strong professional or research experience in machine learning.
• Proficiency in Python and experience using coding agents.
• Ability to implement, debug, and validate complex ML workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, and inference systems.
• Implement model components, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and numerical methods.
• Build reproducible workflows using Python and command-line tools.
• Debug numerical and system-level issues and optimize memory usage and performance.
• Create, solve, review, and validate challenging ML engineering tasks.

Skills

Python

ML workflows

Coding agents

Model development

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML/AI

Tools

Command-line tools

Python

Job description

Synthires is seeking an experienced ML Engineer (MSc. or PhD) for a remote, part-time contractor role.

The position focuses on AI training projects, model development, training pipelines, and inference systems, with emphasis on Python, reproducible workflows, and coding agents. Responsibilities include developing and validating ML models, building data pipelines, implementing evaluation systems, and memory/performance optimization.