Machine Learning Engineer - Distributed Ml Systems

PLURALIS RESEARCH

San Francisco, CA, United States
Base: competitive senior engineering salary in aus...
Remote
Distributed systems production experience
Distributed training frameworks expertise
Model parallelism strategies
Pluralis Research carries out foundational research on Protocol Learning to enable community-trained and community-owned frontier models with self-sustaining economics

Job Summary

  • Pluralis Research carries out foundational research on Protocol Learning to enable community-trained and community-owned frontier models with self-sustaining economics.
  • The role involves building resilient distributed training architectures that operate efficiently under consumer-grade internet connections and heterogeneous hardware.
  • The company offers equity-heavy compensation, competitive base salary for senior roles in Australia, visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates, and a remote-first work environment with access to a Melbourne hub.

Matching Summary

Pluralis Research carries out foundational research on Protocol Learning to enable community-trained and community-owned frontier models with self-sustaining economics.

Salary

Base: Competitive senior engineering salary in Australia; Bonus/Equity: Equity-heavy compensation with meaningful ownership; Benefits: Visa sponsorship available, remote-first work environment

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • distributed systems production experience
  • distributed training frameworks expertise
  • model parallelism strategies
  • expert-level Python programming
  • strong networking fundamentals
  • GPU workload optimization

Nice-to-have

  • fault-tolerant system design
  • peer-to-peer network topologies
  • monitoring and metrics systems
  • experience with decentralized coordination

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years distributed systems experience
  • experience with FSDP, DeepSpeed, or Megatron
  • production-level Python expertise
  • strong networking knowledge including NAT traversal
  • experience optimizing GPU and memory usage

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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