ML Research Engineer PyTorch Expert (Bengaluru)

Company: Mercor
Job Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Employment Type: Full time

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Machine Learning Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $150$200/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Develop challenging machine learning engineering tasks for a long-horizon AI research project.
Design tasks that challenge frontier models ensuring they are solved in no more than 2 out of 8 attempts.
Focus on inference evaluation and systems work rather than heavy model training. Tasks run on both GPU and CPU.
Clearly explain why each problem is difficult for a frontier model.
Contribute ideas without needing to build or review the tasks yourself.

Qualifications

Must-Have





Current or recent role as an ML research engineer research scientist or applied scientist.
Experience with training fine-tuning or optimizing models in PyTorch or JAX.
Deep knowledge in at least one area: LLMs GPU inference and performance Reinforcement learning (RL) or Scientific ML.
Ability to explain why a problem is hard for a frontier model.

Preferred

Experience writing benchmark or evaluation questions.
PhD in ML CS or physics or an MSc with robust research output.
Publications.
Prior Mercor contracts with robust performance.

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