Fall 2026

Machine Learning Engineer – Internship and Full-time

Tilde Research

Tilde Research

11-50 employees

Full-stack AI interpretability and control solutions

No salary listed

Palo Alto, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
Neural Networks
PyTorch
Machine Learning

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Requirements
  • Experience in deep learning or related research areas.
  • Demonstrated exceptional capability working on machine learning infrastructure, including through strong open source contributions, thoughtful technical blog posts or work logs, or previous experience with large-scale pre-training or post-training infrastructure.
  • Deep familiarity with PyTorch or JAX and basic familiarity with Triton, TileLang, or similar tools.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, verbally and in writing.
  • Ability to design and orchestrate end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
  • Ability to learn quickly.
Responsibilities
  • Optimize inference and training throughput for novel model architectures.
  • Build and maintain high-performance distributed training infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with researchers to translate insights into measurable improvements in model performance and understanding.

Tilde Research provides full-stack interpretability tools for AI systems, including general interpreter models and control mechanisms to guide how features flow through inference pipelines. These tools help human experts collaborate with AI by aligning model decisions with human input and existing fine-tuning methods. The approach focuses on deployment-time control and orchestration, adding a layer of insight that sits between raw prompts and model outputs. The goal is safer, more understandable AI that can handle complex tasks within standard deployment workflows.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Tilde closed an $8M seed round in July 2025, led by Khosla Ventures.
  • Its July-August 2026 hiring for ML and kernel roles signals active product-building.
  • The October 2025 Telescope post promises more MoE interpretability releases within weeks.

What critics are saying

  • Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are racing interpretability, crushing Tilde's niche.
  • Tilde still depends on research claims; no customers, revenue, or deployments are public.
  • If frontier labs ship built-in interpretability, Tilde's standalone lab dies by 2027.

What makes Tilde Research unique

  • Tilde Research, founded 2024 in Palo Alto, sells applied interpretability, not dashboards.
  • Its Sieve work showed sparse autoencoders improved Llama-3.1-8B reasoning and generation control.
  • MoMoE and MoBA posts tie interpretability research directly to faster training infrastructure.

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