Sciforium

Sciforium

Senior Research Scientist

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 249 days ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentAlgorithmsMachine LearningPyTorchNLPLLMsMLOpsResearch

About the role

  • Sciforium is seeking an exceptional Senior Research Scientist specializing in advanced AI/ML to push the boundaries of scientific and engineering innovation.
  • This role is ideal for a highly motivated researcher who is passionate about driving foundational breakthroughs in AI.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and evaluate novel ML algorithms using frameworks like PyTorch and JAX.
  • Drive performance improvements through framework debugging, speed optimization, and training pipeline enhancements.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate research prototypes into scalable production systems.
  • Mentor junior researchers and contribute to building a world-class AI research culture.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Strong coding proficiency in Python, with deep experience in PyTorch and/or JAX.
  • Experience with debugging, performance profiling, and speed optimization.

Nice to have

  • Extensive experience with JAX/Flax/XLA stack
  • Experience with efficient model serving, inference optimization, model compression, or production ML systems.
  • Hands-on research or engineering experience with diffusion models or generative modeling.
  • Experience contributing to product development or collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Open-source contributions to major ML frameworks or libraries.
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and equity

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible time off
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Lead research in advanced machine learning areas such as LLMs, generative AI, foundational modeling, optimization techniques, diffusion models, and novel Transformer architectures.
  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Mathematics, or a related field (required).

Company info

  • Sciforium is an AI infrastructure company developing next-generation multimodal AI models and a proprietary, high-efficiency serving platform.

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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