Research Engineer

About the team and the role:

At Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Our ability to iterate quickly on large-scale models depends on world-class ML infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Research Engineer to build the core systems that enable fast, reliable, and scalable model training—powering everything from experimentation to production deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable systems for training large ML models.
• Enable efficient workflows for data ingestion, training, and iteration.
• Develop and optimize distributed training systems across hundreds of GPUs.
• Implement strategies for parallelization, sharding, and efficient compute utilization.
• Improve training efficiency through techniques such as attention optimizations, kernel fusion, and memory management.
• Partner closely with modeling teams to accelerate iteration speed and reduce training costs.
• Build internal tools for experiment tracking, monitoring, and debugging.
• Implement systems for tracking training performance, failures, and resource utilization.
• Debug and resolve bottlenecks across the training stack.
• Provide lightweight infrastructure support for deploying and running models in production environments.
• Optimize inference performance and reliability where needed.
• Support core cloud infrastructure needs for training workloads (without heavy DevOps overhead).
• Manage compute resources efficiently across training jobs.

Requirements:

• Strong experience building infrastructure for large-scale ML training.
• Deep understanding of how modern LLM/VLM systems are trained and scaled.
• Proven experience setting up and scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs.
• Strong understanding of parallelization strategies (data, model, pipeline parallelism).
• Strong proficiency in Python programming.
• Expert-level proficiency in PyTorch and/or JAX.
• Strong understanding of techniques like attention optimization, kernel fusion, and efficient memory usage.

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting inference systems in production.
• Familiarity with robotics or embodied AI workloads.
• Experience building tools for experiment management and researcher productivity.