FICO
Research Engineer (or Scientist) Pre/Post Training (San Diego)
FICO, San Diego, California, United States, 92189
The Opportunity
As a Research Engineer on the AI Innovation and Development team, you will play a key role in advancing research and scaling our engineering capabilities to support FICOs Focused series of foundation models. Your work will be crucial in shaping FFM/FLMs to be responsible and steerable, ensuring they meet the high standards of our regulated clients worldwide.
Senior Director of Research Engineering
What Youll Contribute Build, train and scale FICOs focused foundation models for financial services Enhance distributed training and inference frameworks for compute utilization and stability Develop systematic evaluations, reward models and asynchronous environments Work with financial institutions, pre-sales & forward engineers on real-world tasks
What Were Seeking Strong in Python with proven experience in both ML and large distributed systems Industry experience with transformer-based scaling, optimization and evaluation Can balance novel research exploration with engineering rigor
Nice to Have Experience with applications of reinforcement learning and/or evolutionary algorithms Experience with pre-training foundation architectures from scratch Experience with inference and/or low-latency systems Experience with Rust and communication collectives
What Youll Contribute Build, train and scale FICOs focused foundation models for financial services Enhance distributed training and inference frameworks for compute utilization and stability Develop systematic evaluations, reward models and asynchronous environments Work with financial institutions, pre-sales & forward engineers on real-world tasks
What Were Seeking Strong in Python with proven experience in both ML and large distributed systems Industry experience with transformer-based scaling, optimization and evaluation Can balance novel research exploration with engineering rigor
Nice to Have Experience with applications of reinforcement learning and/or evolutionary algorithms Experience with pre-training foundation architectures from scratch Experience with inference and/or low-latency systems Experience with Rust and communication collectives