Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Luma AI
Software Engineering
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posted on Saturday, June 1, 2024
We are looking for people with strong ML & Distributed systems backgrounds. This role will work within our Research team, closely collaborating with researchers to build the platforms for training our next generation of foundation models.
Responsibilities
- Work with researchers to scale up the systems required for our next generation of models trained on multi-thousand GPU clusters.
- Profile and optimize our model training code-base to achieve best in class hardware efficiency.
- Build systems to distribute work across massive GPU clusters efficiently.
- Design and implement methods to robustly train models in the presence of hardware failures.
- Build tooling to help us better understand problems in our largest training jobs.
Experience
- 5+ years of work experience.
- Experience working with multi-modal ML pipelines, high performance computing and/or low level systems.
- Passion for diving deep into systems implementations and understanding their fundamentals in order to improve their performance and maintainability.
- Experience building stable and highly efficient distributed systems.
- Strong generalist Python and Software skills including significant experience with Pytorch.
- Good to have experience working with high performance C++ or CUDA.
- Please note this role is not meant for recent grads.
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