Preference Model Machine Learning Engineer at Preference Model designing and building reinforcement learning environments for frontier ML research. Own environment development from design through production training runs.
Responsibilities
We’re hiring experienced Machine Learning Engineers to design and build reinforcement learning environments to safely advance model capabilities in machine learning research and engineering. Specifically, you'll be teaching frontier models to do the work of an ML engineer or researcher at a frontier lab.
This role blends research and engineering. It will require you to stay up to date with the latest research, develop novel approaches, and realize them in code. You will have full ownership and autonomy of the environments you build. Your work will include designing and implementing RL environments, conducting experiments and evaluations, delivering your work into production training runs, and collaborating with other researchers and engineers.
Note: This role is only for experienced ML Engineers. We have a separate opening for New Grads.
Design and build RL environments and reward functions that produce clean, learnable signals for frontier models on ML research and engineering tasks
Build deep expertise across the frontier of ML research, training, and inference infrastructure
Collaborate with others to brainstorm and create new ideas and tools to improve the environment building process
What We are Looking For (Qualifications):
5+ years of experience working in machine learning or research, primarily on LLMs and transformer models
Qualification
You may be a good fit if you alsoResearch experience (PhDStrong expertise in kernel development
Required
Proficiency in Python and systems programming and at least one of PyTorch or JAX
Problem solvers who take ownership and drives solutions end-to-end
Passion for staying current with the rapidly evolving ML infrastructure landscape
Ability to meet throughput expectations and respond quickly to feedback
You may be a good fit if you also:
Have expert knowledge in an active DL/ML research area, with publications or public code to show for it. Research experience (PhD, MS) is a big plus
Have deep understanding of transformer internals, training/inference of modern LLMs, experience with inference libraries (vLLM, SGLang, etc)
Have strong expertise in kernel development (CUDA, Triton, Pallas)
Have built complex interactive RL environments
Preferred
Expert knowledge in active DL/ML research area with publications or public code
Research experience (PhD, MS)
Deep understanding of transformer internals and LLM training/inference
Experience with inference libraries (vLLM, SGLang, etc)