Krea AI

Krea AI

ML Researcher - Posttraining

San Francisco · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 45 days ago
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About the role

  • We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D.
  • We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract.
  • We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate with data teams and partners to manage collection of preference data and model evaluation results.
  • Collaborate with our AI research and engineering teams to integrate advancements into our products.
  • Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling

Requirements

  • Proven work of posttraining diffusion models for image or video generation.
  • Experience with large-scale model training, inference, and optimization.
  • Strong understanding of both LLM and diffusion post training pipelines and algorithms such as PPO, GRPO, DPO, OPD, and MOPD.
  • Strong proficiency in PyTorch and understanding of its inner workings.
  • Good knowledge of low precision training / inference in FP8, NVFP4, and MXFP8.
  • Experience training VLM models.

Compensation

  • generous salary & equity packages

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
  • Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
  • Time off: Flexible PTO policy
  • Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees
  • Implement posttraining techniques ranging from supervised finetuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, on-policy distillation, and various distillation / acceleration techniques.

Company info

  • We work full-time and in-person at our North Beach office in San Francisco.
  • Fast iteration and execution speed. Bias towards action, agency, and independence.
  • Train custom VLM as reward models as part of our reward design.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).

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