Sciforium
Senior Research Scientist
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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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.
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- 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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