Senior ML Architect: AI Systems & Novel Compute

Unconventional AI

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+
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Unlimited PTO
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Job summary

Unconventional AI in Palo Alto is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, AI Systems, Algorithms & Models, to design and scale model architectures that blend novel computational primitives with conventional neural components for multi-modal capabilities.

You will build end-to-end architectures for image generation, language, video, and world models on our novel compute substrates, co-designing models and hardware-aware implementations with researchers and engineers.

Qualifications

  • MS/PhD or equivalent in AI/CS/Physics or related field.
  • Deep expertise in modern ML model architectures and training.
  • Fluency with transformers, diffusion models and ML tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale model architectures blending novel primitives with conventional neural components.
  • Co-design algorithms for multi-modal tasks including image, language, video and world models.
  • Develop end-to-end architectures optimized for our novel compute substrates.
  • Collaborate across researchers, software and hardware teams to align model requirements with hardware constraints.

Skills

AI/ML expertise
ML model architectures
Cross-modal ML
Python tooling

Education

MS/PhD or equivalent

Tools

PyTorch
JAX

Job description

Unconventional AI in Palo Alto is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, AI Systems, Algorithms & Models, to design and scale model architectures that blend novel computational primitives with conventional neural components for multi-modal capabilities.

You will build end-to-end architectures for image generation, language, video, and world models on our novel compute substrates, co-designing models and hardware-aware implementations with researchers and engineers.

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