ML Infrastructure Engineer

Team Culture

Join a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable and motivated professionals. Our early-stage environment offers the opportunity to take ownership of broad decisions with significant and long-lasting impact. We emphasize continuous learning and growth, fostering cross-functional collaboration where your contributions are vital to our success.

Summary

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. The person who fills this role will design, build, and scale infrastructure to power massive-scale data, modeling, and analysis platforms, playing a critical role in shaping a high-performance, production-grade ML ecosystem to support rapid experimentation with diverse datasets spanning neural signals, behavior, and more.

This person will have significant ownership over the ML R&D platform, working closely with domain experts to architect new cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and modeling flows. The work will ultimately enable the development of cutting-edge models for neuroscientific discovery and neural decoding, empowering brain-computer interface technology to improve the lives of patients living with severe neurological conditions.

Primary Role and Responsibilities

• Create flexible and performant ML infrastructure
• Design and build systems ML cloud infrastructure to enable massive-scale modeling and analytics
• Support diverse model exploration, hyperparameter optimization, pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluation processes
• Design and optimize scalable distributed training pipelines, with support for features such model sharding, cross-GPU communication, and real-time training monitoring
• Create, operate, and maintain robust ML platforms and services across the model lifecycle
• Make informed architecture decisions that balance performance, cost, reliability, and scalability
• Build diverse and scalable data platforms
• Design, build, and optimize massive-scale databases and data pipelines for scalable, flexible, and reliable data access
• Explore research-driven, tailored data solutions using existing and simulated data, comparing performance and efficiency across solutions for typical data-access patterns
• Create infrastructure and pipelines for ingesting internal and external datasets with varied shapes, formats, and associated metadata
• Design and assess custom data formats for efficient storage and slicing of high-dimensional time-series data
• Enable efficient data movement, preprocessing, and artifact management for data lineage and modeling reproducibility
• Meet company standards for delivered solutions
• Establish best practices for reliability, observability, reproducibility, and operational excellence across the ML ecosystem
• Make informed and collaborative decisions with domain experts across the software & ML teams
• Foster visibility and reproducibility within the company by maintaining extensive documentation of design decisions, evaluations of viable alternatives for selected solutions, pipeline assessments, etc.
• Support ML R&D operations while preparing for eventual incorporation into product pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering, large-scale data infrastructure, or systems ML
• Extensive proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with PyTorch
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput data pipelines for large and diverse datasets
• Experience working with distributed-training frameworks (e.g. FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, Ray, etc.)
• Experience building or optimizing ML training pipelines for transformers or other large neural-network models
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with research and modeling teams to productionize workflows
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively on cross-functional and interdisciplinary teams
• Experience having technical ownership over at least one successfully implemented collaborative project

Other Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Proficiency in C++, Go, CUDA, Rust, and/or Java
• Experience in data engineering and systems ML for time-series data
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals of distributed systems, including scalability, fault tolerance, monitoring, observability, scheduling, performance tuning, and resource management
• Experience with cloud-native environments and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience scaling foundation-model training infrastructure or multi-cluster computing environments

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients' lives in a highly collaborative work environment.
• Competitive compensation, including stock options.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• 401(k) program with matching contributions.