Mind Robotics
Research Engineer
Palo Alto · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jan 26, 2026
- Experience
- Strong experience is required; no number of years is stated.
About the job
Build and optimize scalable ML infrastructure for training large models and supporting their production deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop distributed training systems across hundreds of GPUs, including parallelization, sharding, and compute optimization.
- Build workflows and tools for data ingestion, experiment tracking, monitoring, debugging, and training performance.
- Resolve training-stack bottlenecks and provide lightweight production inference and cloud infrastructure support.
What they ask for
- Strong experience building infrastructure for large-scale ML training.
- Deep understanding of training and scaling modern LLM/VLM systems.
- Proven experience setting up and scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs, with knowledge of data, model, and pipeline parallelism.
- Strong Python proficiency and expert-level PyTorch and/or JAX proficiency; understanding of attention optimization, kernel fusion, and efficient memory usage.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting production inference systems or building experiment-management and researcher-productivity tools.
- Familiarity with robotics or embodied AI workloads.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Build infrastructure for training and deploying generalized physical AI models for industrial robotics, including large-scale LLM/VLM training and inference optimization.
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