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Research Engineer, Training & Inference

Harmonic · Palo Alto

Frontier labonsitemid-level$200k–$450k
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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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