Sciforium
Research Engineer - Model Evaluation & MLOps
San Francisco, CA · Mid
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About the role
- You will rapidly enable Sciforium's models and the latest open-weight models on GPUs, automate quality and performance benchmarking, and improve the MLOps workflows that connect research experiments to reliable releases.
- Rapidly integrate new internal and open-weight language and multimodal models into our GPU evaluation and inference environments.
- Automate the path from research checkpoints to validated deployments through CI/CD and reproducible workflows.
Responsibilities
- Build automated benchmarks for model quality and systems performance, including latency, throughput, and memory usage.
- Create standardized, reproducible comparisons across Sciforium models, external baselines, and runtime configurations.
- Build and maintain experiment tracking, model registry, and versioning for models, datasets, and evaluation configurations.
- Build reusable tools that help researchers launch evaluations, compare experiments, and reproduce results.
- Profile end-to-end model workloads and collaborate with distributed systems, inference, and GPU kernel engineers on deeper performance issues.
- Software Engineering: Strong Python and software engineering skills, with experience building reliable production systems.
Requirements
- Evaluation & MLOps: Experience with model evaluation or benchmarking and core model lifecycle workflows such as experiment tracking, versioning, deployment, or monitoring.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Hugging Face Transformers or similar model libraries.
- Experience enabling models on AMD GPUs and ROCm.
- Contributions to open-source evaluation, model, or ML infrastructure projects.
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible time off
- Competitive salary and equity
- Machine Learning Expertise: Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX and a good understanding of modern language or multimodal model architectures.
Company info
- Candidates may be stronger in some areas than others. We are looking for strong software engineering foundations, hands-on ML systems experience, and depth in at least one of model evaluation, MLOps, or model deployment.
- We are looking for strong software engineering foundations, hands-on ML systems experience, and depth in at least one of model evaluation, MLOps, or model deployment.
Equal opportunity
- Sciforium is an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Backed by multi-million-dollar funding and direct sponsorship from AMD with hands-on support from AMD engineers the team is scaling rapidly to build the full stack powering frontier AI models and real-time applications.
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