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Multimodal AI Model Optimization Research Engineer

Remote · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026

About the job

Optimize multimodal AI models for speed, efficiency, and production deployment, balancing latency, cost, and quality.

What you'll do

  • Apply sparsification, distillation, and quantization to research models.
  • Own model optimization experiments, metrics, and benchmarking.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to deploy new ideas.

What they ask for

  • Strong deep learning experience using PyTorch.
  • Hands-on model optimization and compression experience, including distillation, pruning/sparsification, quantization, and mixed precision.
  • Strong Python skills and understanding of inference performance and GPU/accelerator fundamentals.
  • Experience with large models and datasets in cloud environments.

Nice to have

  • Optimization experience with diffusion, video/audio generative, or large language models.
  • Familiarity with TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, TVM, Triton, or XLA; or custom Triton/CUDA kernels and low-level performance tuning.

Tools

PyTorch, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, TVM, Triton, XLA, CUDA, WebRTC

AI focus

Optimize and deploy multimodal AI models, including generative video/audio models and potentially diffusion models or large language models.

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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)