Sr. Model Engineer, Mid-training

• Scale synthetic coding data to trillions of tokens with large-scale docker verification
• Distill the intelligence of flagship models into flash models through synthetic data generation
• Optimize mid-training data mixtures to boost the ceiling for RL
• Engineer long-context data recipes
• Develop robust and diverse evaluation for mid-training checkpoints

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience writing production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++
• Experience training large models (e.g., pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, or RL training of neural networks with 1B+ parameters)

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Familiarity across all kinds of scaling laws
• Strong ability to design ML experiments
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art techniques for curating AI training data for text, image, audio, and video modalities
• Strong engineering abilities in large-scale data processing frameworks
• Experience with ML and large model scaling
• Experience with Spark, Ray, and other large-scale data processing frameworks

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice .