Spectral Labs
Research Engineer
$150K–$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 0–2 years of experience building and training deep learning models.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be currently based in the US; visa sponsorship is not available.
About the job
Build and train foundation models for engineering physical systems using real CAD data, translating research ideas into experiments and working models.
What you'll do
- Implement model architectures and training recipes, and scale distributed training.
- Build evaluation harnesses and design how geometry becomes model input.
- Investigate and understand why training runs diverge.
What they ask for
- Strong Python and PyTorch or JAX skills.
- Fundamentals to understand why a training run diverged.
Pay
$150–250k annually (total pay); $150K – $250K (total pay)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Develop foundation models for engineering physical systems and real CAD data.
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