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Institute of Foundation Models

Researches and develops foundation models

Error Analysis Engineer

Full-Stack EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSunnyvale, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field is required.
  • Proven experience as a Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Machine Learning Evaluation Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Engineer, or similar role.
  • Experience building software systems for AI, machine learning, data analysis, evaluation, annotation, experimentation, or model monitoring.
  • Experience working with AI algorithms and the ability to develop systems that accommodate AI-related requirements.
  • Experience performing error analysis, model evaluation, data quality analysis, or failure-mode investigation for machine learning or language model systems.
  • Experience developing internal applications, dashboards, review tools, or web-based workflows for technical users.
  • Familiarity with front-end frameworks, back-end services, databases, APIs, and cloud or internal infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with GitHub, Git, CI/CD workflows, and collaborative software development practices.
  • Knowledge of front-end languages and libraries such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or Angular.
  • Knowledge of back-end languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, C#, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
  • Familiarity with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, or other structured and unstructured data stores.
  • Ability to analyze complex model outputs and translate qualitative failures into structured, measurable categories.
  • Experience with large language models, foundation models, multimodal models, or model evaluation systems.
  • Experience designing or using error taxonomies, evaluation rubrics, benchmark datasets, human evaluation workflows, or automated grading systems.
  • Experience with Python-based data analysis tools such as pandas, NumPy, or Jupyter.
  • Experience with visualization or dashboarding tools for model quality analysis.
  • Experience with distributed systems, job queues, workflow orchestration, or large-scale data processing.
  • Experience working in a research environment or with fast-moving AI product and model teams.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with researchers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, and internal stakeholders to implement software solutions for Eval360 and related model evaluation workflows.
  • Build and improve Eval360 as an evaluation service that acts as a quality gate for model development, model comparison, and model release decisions.
  • Perform error analysis on model outputs, including identifying failure patterns, categorizing issues, tracing root causes, and proposing improvements to evaluation methodology.
  • Develop tools, workflows, and dashboards that help researchers and engineers inspect model failures, compare model behavior, and understand quality regressions.
  • Design and implement client-side and server-side architecture for evaluation review systems, error analysis interfaces, reporting tools, and internal evaluation applications.
  • Develop responsive, usable interfaces for error triage, annotation review, evaluation debugging, and model quality investigation.
  • Build and maintain back-end services, APIs, data pipelines, and integrations for evaluation execution, results storage, analysis, and reporting.
  • Test software for responsiveness, correctness, reliability, and efficiency across evaluation workflows.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade evaluation systems, including issues in data processing, evaluation metrics, model output handling, job orchestration, and user-facing analysis tools.
  • Create and maintain security, access control, and data protection settings for evaluation data, model outputs, annotations, and internal tooling.
  • Write technical documentation for Eval360 systems, error taxonomies, evaluation workflows, debugging procedures, and user-facing tools.
  • Work with researchers, data scientists, analysts, and machine learning engineers to improve evaluation quality, model diagnostics, and failure-mode visibility.
  • Track development tools, evaluation frameworks, model analysis methods, data quality techniques, and architectures relevant to AI evaluation systems.
  • Contribute to the design of error taxonomies, evaluation rubrics, quality thresholds, regression detection methods, and model readiness criteria.
  • Help ensure Eval360 produces reliable, interpretable, and actionable signals for model quality gates.
  • Contribute to research publications, technical reports, internal knowledge sharing, and external presentations where appropriate.
  • Contribute to intellectual property and thought leadership in AI evaluation, error analysis, model quality measurement, and evaluation infrastructure.
  • Perform other duties reasonably directed by the line manager that align with these functional objectives.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, experiment tracking systems, data pipelines, or machine learning infrastructure is strongly preferred.
  • A master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field is preferred.

About the Company

Institute of Foundation Models

Researches and develops foundation models

IFM builds and studies foundation models—large AI models designed to learn broadly from diverse data and be used across many tasks. Its work centers on academic research to create open, fast, and practical models that address real-world societal needs, rather than narrow applications. The models are developed by a global team across Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley, with a strong emphasis on openness and collaboration to advance AI science and accessibility. Unlike typical private labs that lock models behind paywalls, IFM aims to provide publicly accessible, efficient models that can be used by researchers and developers to solve real problems. The overarching goal is to push the science of foundation models forward while ensuring their benefits reach society at large.

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