Senior AI R&D Engineer – Model Training

Job summary

Responsibilities

Aleph Alpha is one of the few companies in Europe doing serious foundation model pre- and post-training. We're building models that have general-purpose capabilities, and specifically excel at addressing the needs of our customers.

• You will work across our full stack. Some weeks you might be optimizing how training loads are scheduled on our cluster and making the pipeline more robust and performant so we…
• No two days are the same. Things move fast, and your ability to focus and prioritize is what lets you unblock the team day-to-day while designing the high-quality tooling and…
• We're still building out our training pipeline and infrastructure. Some pieces exist, some do not, and you will have real influence on what gets built and how.
• Identifying issues and taking initiative is what drives our day-to-day work.
• Working mode, design decisions, priorities are all done in your team together with your team mates.

What they're looking for

• At its core, you need to be able to dive into a codebase, change the behavior as necessary, and after the change the code should be better tested and easier to understand than…
• As such we look for candidates for an understanding of how to design for low coupling and high cohesion paired with the ability to incrementally refactor.
• Experience with the following technologies is likely to be helpful:
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Trunk based development

Tech stack

• Python
• Rust
• Kubernetes