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Research Scientist, (Privacy-Preserving Large-Scale Model Training & Architecture Optimization)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Design and optimize large-scale training architectures for diffusion-based and unified generative foundation models in privacy-sensitive production environments.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning systems engineer (diffusion & unified models)

Builds

Next-generation generative foundation models (DiT, Rectified Flow, hybrid AR + diffusion) deployed in production

Domain

AI/ML, Large-scale distributed systems, GPU optimization, Privacy-preserving ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale deep learning systems, Distributed training (DP/TP/PP/ZeRO/FSDP), GPU optimization (memory layout, kernel fusion), Diffusion model training, PyTorch, Fault-tolerant system design

Preferred skills

Privacy-preserving ML, CUDA kernel development, Unified multimodal models, Production GPU orchestration at scale

Technologies

PyTorch, CUDA, ZeRO, FSDP, DiT, Rectified Flow

Responsibilities

Design end-to-end training architecture for diffusion and unified models; Optimize GPU-centric performance across thousands of accelerators; Build fault-tolerant, self-healing training systems; Optimize noise schedules and memory-efficient attention mechanisms.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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