Research Engineer

The role

You will develop scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms and use them to run scientific experiments. You will contribute to open source codebases and participate in the write-up of results as a paper author.

What you will do

• Develop scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms
• Run scientific experiments
• Contribute to open source codebases such as Pytorch, HuggingFace Transformers and Accelerate
• Involved in the write-up of results and credited as an author in papers
• Propose novel research directions

Required qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience or experience applying machine learning methods
• Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language
• Results-oriented and motivated by impactful research

Nice to have

• Python
• Common ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Natural language processing or reinforcement learning
• Operating system internals and distributed systems
• Publications or open-source software contributions
• Basic linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics

Benefits

• Health Insurance - 94% of Insurance premium paid by Organization commencing within 1 month after your start date
• Retirement - 401(k) plan with up to 2% match
• PTO - 25 days Paid Time Off per year, accrued weekly and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• Paid Leave - Paid Bereavement, Family, Medical and Pregnancy Disability Leave
• WFH Stipend & Equipment - Work computer and stipend provided for eligible employees
• Catered Meals (Berkeley Office Only) - Catered lunches and dinners on workdays at our office
• Pay for work-related travel and equipment expenses

Before you apply

• 72-minute programming assessment
• Two interviews with members of our technical staff
• Paid work trial lasting up to 1 week

About the company

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. It is one of the largest independent AI safety research institutes.