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Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Training Engineer

United States, San Francisco · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Our Training Infrastructure team is building the distributed systems that power our next-generation Liquid Foundation Models. As we scale, we need to design, implement, and optimize the infrastructure that enables large-scale training. This is a high-ownership training systems role focused on runtime/performance/reliability (not a general platform/SRE role). You’ll work on a small team with fast feedback loops, building critical systems from the ground up rather than inheriting mature infrastructure.

Job Responsibility

  • Design and build core systems that make large training runs fast and reliable
  • Build scalable distributed training infrastructure for GPU clusters
  • Implement and tune parallelism/sharding strategies for evolving architectures
  • Optimize distributed efficiency (topology-aware collectives, comm/compute overlap, straggler mitigation)
  • Build data loading systems that eliminate I/O bottlenecks for multimodal datasets
  • Develop checkpointing mechanisms balancing memory constraints with recovery needs
  • Create monitoring, profiling, and debugging tools for training stability and performance

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building distributed training infrastructure (PyTorch Distributed DDP/FSDP, DeepSpeed ZeRO, Megatron-LM TP/PP)
  • Experience diagnosing performance bottlenecks and failure modes (profiling, NCCL/collectives issues, hangs, OOMs, stragglers)
  • Understanding of hardware accelerators and networking topologies
  • Experience optimizing data pipelines for ML workloads

Nice to have

  • MoE (Mixture of Experts) training experience
  • Large-scale distributed training (100+ GPUs)
  • Open-source contributions to training infrastructure projects

What we offer

  • Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company
  • We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
  • 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
  • Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year

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