Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Systems
Magic · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsite$275k–$550k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and operate infrastructure training long-context models at scale.
- Make massive pre-training runs stable, fast and reproducible.
- Tackle memory, communication and reliability challenges at extreme scale.
What they offer
- Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
- 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
- Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Unlimited paid time off
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded engineer who thrives owning critical infrastructure at extreme scale. You care about performance, reliability, and enabling frontier AI research through hands-on building.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience training large models in multi-node GPU environments
- Deep understanding of parallelism strategies and performance trade-offs
- Experience debugging cross-layer issues in production ML systems
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate critical infrastructure
- Track record of improving performance or reliability of large-scale systems
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
Lab profile
About Magic
Building safe AGI that automates research and code generation to accelerate progress.
Known for
- Frontier-scale pre-training
- Domain-specific RL
- Ultra-long context
- Inference-time compute