Research Engineer, Training & Inference
Harmonic · Palo Alto
Frontier labonsitemid-level$200k–$450k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own the full RL stack from environment simulators to distributed training loops.
- Build the verification engine that catches bugs before code ships.
- Maximize throughput for RL training and low-latency production serving.
What they offer
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) matching
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for employees and 50% coverage for dependents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) available for qualifying health plans
Ideal candidate
Systems-obsessed engineer who owns the full stack and chases hardware-level performance. You thrive refactoring deep infrastructure to maximize throughput for foundation-model workloads.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent industry experience
- 2+ years of relevant, hands-on industry experience
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience building or maintaining components within ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
- Understanding of distributed training concepts and collective communication primitives such as NCCL, or experience deploying and profiling models on GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field (preferred)
- 5+ years of relevant, hands-on industry experience (preferred)
- Proficiency in C++ (preferred)
- Experience writing or improving kernels to resolve low-level bottlenecks (preferred)
- Proven success deploying performant inference at scale (preferred)
- Direct experience scaling models via FSDP, Tensor Parallelism, or related sharding techniques on multi-node GPU clusters (preferred)
- Experience designing reinforcement learning systems for high-throughput training and asynchronous data sampling (preferred)
Lab profile
About Harmonic
Building Aristotle, a mathematical reasoning engine with Lean 4 verification for absolute precision.
What they build
- Aristotle
Known for
- Lean 4 verified reasoning
- Reinforcement learning for reasoning
- Gold Medal-level 2025 IMO performance
- Resolution of long-standing open problems
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