Prior Labs
Research Engineer, Foundation Model
Berlin +2 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2025
- Location
- Berlin
Freiburg
New York - Experience
- 3+ years building ML systems in research or industry.
- Education
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Research and engineer foundation models for structured data, from designing architectures and experiments to building training and evaluation systems.
What you'll do
- Design and test architectures; run ablations and analyze scaling behavior.
- Build training and evaluation infrastructure and code that turns research ideas into trained models.
- Contribute to research papers and develop models for large-scale, multimodal, and efficient deployment.
What they ask for
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience building ML systems in research or industry.
- Publications at top ML venues or equivalent demonstrated research impact.
- Deep proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and the ML and data science ecosystem, with strong software engineering practices.
Nice to have
- Experience at an early-stage startup or as a founding engineer.
- Open-source ML contributions, model distillation, inference optimization, on-device ML, or structured-data experience.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy
AI focus
Research and develop tabular foundation models, including scaling transformer architectures, combining tabular, text, and numerical data, improving model efficiency, and supporting time series, forecasting, and anomaly detection.
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