FICO
Research Engineer, Pre/Post Training (Scientist)
FICO, San Diego, California, United States, 92189
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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 FICO’s 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 You’ll Contribute
Build, train and scale FICO’s 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 We’re 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
Seniority level Director
Employment type Full-time
Job function
Information Technology, Finance, and Science
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
Financial Services
Software Development
Benefits
Paid maternity leave
401(k)
Paid paternity leave
Medical insurance
Pension plan
Vision insurance
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— Senior Director of Research Engineering
What You’ll Contribute
Build, train and scale FICO’s 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 We’re 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
Seniority level Director
Employment type Full-time
Job function
Information Technology, Finance, and Science
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
Financial Services
Software Development
Benefits
Paid maternity leave
401(k)
Paid paternity leave
Medical insurance
Pension plan
Vision insurance
#J-18808-Ljbffr