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$140,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr
About Oumi
Why we exist: Oumi is on a mission to make frontier AI truly open for all. We are founded on the belief that AI will have a transformative impact on humanity, and that developing it collectively, in the open, is the best path forward to ensure that it is done efficiently and safely.
What we do: Oumi provides an all-in-one platform to build state-of-the-art AI models, end to end, from data preparation to production deployment, empowering innovators to build cutting-edge models at any scale. Oumi also develops open foundation models in collaboration with academic collaborators and the open community.
Our Approach: Oumi is fundamentally an open-source first company, with open-collaboration across the community as a core principle. Our work is:
- Open Source First: All our platform and core technology is open source
- Research-driven: We conduct and publish original research in AI, collaborating with our community of academic research labs and collaborators
- Community-powered: We believe in the power of open-collaboration and welcome contributions from researchers and developers worldwide
We’re looking for a Research Engineer to join our team working on generative AI and LLMs. In this role, you'll bridge research and engineering—designing scalable infrastructure, enabling cutting-edge experiments, and helping open-source the next generation of LLMs. You will collbaborate closely with our research team and the open-source community to build tools, run evaluations, and contribute to models that are safe, performant, and accessible.
What you'll do:
- Design and build systems to support training, fine-tuning, and evaluating large language models.
- Partner with researchers to define experiments, write reusable code, run benchmarks, and interpret results.
- Work on LLM alignment and tuning using techniques like reinforcement learning (RLHF), supervised fine-tuning, and prompt optimization.
- Develop scalable ML pipelines for distributed training (e.g., across multi-GPU and multi-node environments).
- Contribute to open-source tooling and models to support transparency and community collaboration.
- Optimize performance across the ML stack—from data loading to deployment.
- Strong experience in machine learning, deep learning, or NLP—especially in generative AI or LLMs.
- Solid programming skills in Python, and experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch.
- Experience designing or maintaining ML infrastructure at scale (e.g., cloud-based training, distributed systems).
- Comfort working in highly collaborative environments with research and engineering teams.
- Bonus: experience with academic publications, open-source contributions, or LLM alignment work.
- Share Oumi's values: Beneficial for all, Customer-obsessed, Radical Ownership, Exceptional Teammates, Science-grounded.
- Competitive salary: $140,000 - $220,000
- Equity in a high-growth startup
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
- 21 days PTO
- Regular team offsites and events
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