Research Engineer

Mind Robotics; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mind Robotics in Palo Alto is building generalized physical AI and seeks a Research Engineer to design scalable training systems for large ML models, enabling rapid experimentation and production deployment.

You will optimize distributed training across hundreds of GPUs, implement data/model/pipeline parallelism, and build internal tools for tracking experiments, monitoring, and debugging to accelerate researcher productivity.

Qualifications

• Experience building infrastructure for large-scale ML training.
• Understanding of how modern LLM/VLM systems are trained and scaled.
• Experience setting up and scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs.
• Knowledge of data/model/pipeline parallelism.
• Proficient in Python programming.
• Expert in PyTorch and/or JAX.
• Memory usage optimization techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable systems for training large ML models.
• Enable efficient workflows for data ingestion, training, and iteration.
• Develop and optimize distributed training systems across hundreds of GPUs.
• Implement strategies for parallelization, sharding, and efficient compute utilization.
• Improve training efficiency through techniques such as attention optimizations, kernel fusion, and memory management.
• Partner with modeling teams to accelerate iteration speed and reduce training costs.
• Build internal tools for experiment tracking, monitoring, and debugging.
• Implement systems for tracking training performance, failures, and resource utilization.
• Debug and resolve bottlenecks across the training stack.
• Provide lightweight infrastructure support for deploying and running models in production environments.
• Optimize inference performance and reliability where needed.
• Support core cloud infrastructure needs for training workloads (without heavy DevOps overhead).
• Manage compute resources efficiently across training jobs.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Distributed training

GPUs

Parallelization

Data ingestion

Job description

The Role

At Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning‑intensive work in real‑world industrial environments. Our ability to iterate quickly on large‑scale models depends on world‑class ML infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Research Engineer to build the core systems that enable fast, reliable, and scalable model training—powering everything from experimentation to production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable systems for training large ML models
• Enable efficient workflows for data ingestion, training, and iteration
• Develop and optimize distributed training systems across hundreds of GPUs
• Implement strategies for parallelization, sharding, and efficient compute utilization
• Improve training efficiency through techniques such as attention optimizations, kernel fusion, and memory management
• Partner closely with modeling teams to accelerate iteration speed and reduce training costs
• Build internal tools for experiment tracking, monitoring, and debugging
• Implement systems for tracking training performance, failures, and resource utilization
• Debug and resolve bottlenecks across the training stack
• Provide lightweight infrastructure support for deploying and running models in production environments
• Optimize inference performance and reliability where needed
• Support core cloud infrastructure needs for training workloads (without heavy DevOps overhead)
• Manage compute resources efficiently across training jobs

Qualifications

• Strong experience building infrastructure for large‑scale ML training
• Deep understanding of how modern LLM/VLM systems are trained and scaled
• Proven experience setting up and scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs
• Strong understanding of parallelization strategies (data, model, pipeline parallelism)
• Strong proficiency in Python programming
• Expert‑level proficiency in PyTorch and/or JAX
• Strong understanding of techniques like attention optimization, kernel fusion, and efficient memory usage

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting inference systems in production
• Familiarity with robotics or embodied AI workloads
• Experience building tools for experiment management and researcher productivity