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Research Engineer, Frontier Speculative Decoding

Together AI ·
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📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $190K–$270K Mid
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Research Engineer at Together AI building speculative decoding algorithms for production LLM inference. Focus on data curation, hyperparameter tuning, and model optimization for customer-specific deployments on GPU clusters.

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About the Role

Together AI is building the Inference Platform that powers the world's most advanced generative AI models. Your role will be a critical bridge between cutting-edge research and real-world applications, focusing on making translating our internal model training research to production-ready deployment for our customers. This involves a deep commitment to data-centric development, meticulous hyperparameter tuning, and rigorous checkpoint evaluation before models ever hit production.

This role will involve understanding customer specific needs and fine-tuning models on our internal data recipe and their proprietary data. The goal is to transform general-purpose models into highly performant, specialized tools that solve real business problems. You will not be training foundation models from scratch but rather focusing on creating highly efficient, specialized models by working with dedicated GPU clusters.

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About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, ATLAS, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers and engineers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $190,000 - $270,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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