Full-Time

Distributed Machine Learning Engineer

Institute of Foundation Models

Institute of Foundation Models

Compensation Overview

$150k - $450k/yr

+ Bonus + 401K Match

H1B Sponsorship Available

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

In Person

Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
Neural Networks
Data Structures & Algorithms
Requirements
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer, Science and Electrical or Computer Systems Engineering (CSEE) with 1+ years of working experience, OR Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and Electrical or Computer Systems Engineering (CSEE) or equivalent experience with 2+ years of working experience
Responsibilities
  • Understand, analyze, profile, optimize, and provide guidance to the team on deep learning workloads on state-of-the-art hardware and software platforms to improve their efficiency with different levels of optimization.
  • Design and implement performance benchmarks and testing methodologies to evaluate application performance.
  • Build tools to automate workload analysis, workload optimization, and other critical workflows.
  • Triage system issues and identify bottleneck and inefficiencies by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network and propose solutions to enhance GPU utilization.
  • Support the team to develop appropriate kernels and systems for new model architectures and algorithms.
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Represent MBZUAI at industry conferences and events, showcasing the institution’s cutting-edge high-performance computing and deep learning capabilities and establishing MBZUAI as a global leader in AI research and innovation.
  • Perform all other duties as reasonably directed by the line manager that are commensurate with these functional objectives.
Institute of Foundation Models

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What believers are saying

  • IFM's dedicated teams in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley drive K2 and JAIS advancements.
  • Active job openings for AI research interns and engineers signal rapid team expansion.
  • PAN world model enables multi-level reasoning in simulations for real-world applications.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI's o1 surpasses K2 and JAIS by 25% on benchmarks, shifting users in 6-12 months.
  • US export controls block NVIDIA H200 GPUs, delaying K2 releases by 9 months.
  • Stanford CRFM's model with 10x data captures 70% academic citations in 6-12 months.

What makes Institute of Foundation Models unique

  • IFM pioneers open-source K2 Think V2, UAE's sovereign 70B reasoning system released January 2026.
  • IFM advances JAIS 2, world's leading Arabic LLM trained on largest Arabic-first dataset.
  • IFM hosts models on Hugging Face under mbzuai-ifm for global open collaboration.

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401(k) Plan

Wellness Program

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