Tavus
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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