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Research Engineer Graduate (Seed Model - AI Foundation Model Infrastructure) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, United StatesFull-timePosted Oct 10, 2026

Job description

About the team

The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, and inference.
  • Optimize distributed training systems across compute, memory, and communication.
  • Improve system reliability, efficiency, and observability for large-scale workloads.
  • Develop frameworks for evaluation, data processing, and model lifecycle management.
  • Co-design systems and algorithms to improve performance of foundation models.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
  • Excellent coding ability, data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, proficient in C/C++ or Python, etc.
  • Experience in distributed systems, large-scale training infrastructure, or ML systems.
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks and system optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong problem-solving and engineering skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

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