Research Engineer - Geo-Distributed Inference
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Key Responsibilities
- Own the inference stack : You build and own it end-to-end. Pipeline-parallel execution, placement and routing, the transport, the serving engine, and failure handling. You set the direction, and you make things happen.
- Invent the algorithms : Making inference fast on consumer hardware over the public internet takes methods that don't exist yet. You design them, validate them, and put them in production.
- Serve training and users : You keep the rollout pipeline fast and reliable for RL training now, and turn it into the serving layer for our models once they're trained.
What We're Looking For
Shipped serving systems : You've shipped serving-engine internals or built a large-scale inference system yourself, and you can do this work hands-on today.
Research ability : Publications (papers and blogposts) in distributed inference or a nearby field, such as LLM serving systems, pipeline parallelism over slow networks, or decentralized training, are a strong signal. So is unpublished work you can walk us through.
Low-bandwidth networking : Experience with systems that run in low-bandwidth, high-latency settings like the public internet is a strong signal.
Mission alignment : You believe Protocol Learning is the viable third path for collective, trustless, and sovereign AI.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with RL post-training.
Exposure to Apple silicon or MLX.
Experience with P2P networking and NAT traversal.
Experience at proprietary, open-weight and open-source AI labs
Compensation & Benefits
- Equity-Heavy Package : We offer significant ownership for key technical contributors in addition to a high base salary.
- Remote-First Culture : Flexible work environment with team members distributed globally.
- Visa Sponsorship : Optional full visa sponsorship and relocation support to either Australia or the US.
- Open Problems : Training and serving frontier models on hardware you don't control, over networks you don't own, mostly has no published answers yet. You'll write some of the first ones.
FYI's
We work remotely across the world, with the main teams in Australia and North America. You'll need to be comfortable working across timezones.
Applicants must have professional-level English proficiency (written and spoken).
Recruiters: we aren't looking for agency support at this time. We'll reach out if we need help.
We are backed by Union Square Ventures and other tier-1 investors, and we are a world-class, deeply technical team of ML researchers. Pluralis is unapologetically ideological. We believe AI, and the world, end up on a better path if we succeed in implementing the protocol for intelligence. If this resonates, please apply.
About Pluralis Research
AI research lab developing collectively owned foundation models through decentralized collaborative training across many participants.
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