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Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Systems

Magic · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$275k–$550k
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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
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