Founding Research Engineer - Flower Frontier Model Team - Remote

Overview

As a founding member of the Flower Frontier Model Team, you will help push the boundaries of frontier AI models, blending cutting-edge practices with decentralized learning methods.

In Short

• Join a new team building category-defining AI models.
• Work on superhuman capabilities across various domains.
• Shape the scientific foundation of frontier models.
• Collaborate with a mix of research and engineering experts.
• Turn ideas into working systems and scalable approaches.
• Focus on data curation, evaluations, pre-training, and post-training.
• Bring creativity and systematic experimentation to the role.
• Contribute to open-source models and Flower Lab products.
• Work in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Opportunity to influence the direction of the company.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of LLM architectures and training methodologies.
• Experience with pre-training or post-training techniques.
• Strong grounding in optimization techniques.
• Experimental design skills for scaling experiments.
• Fluency in PyTorch or JAX.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse teams.
• Capability to turn research ideas into runnable prototypes.
• Familiarity with tools like Linux, git, Docker.
• Strong written English and communication skills.
• Openness to new tooling.

Benefits

• Work with a team of experts in a collaborative environment.
• Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking AI technologies.
• Influence the direction of AI development.
• Fast-paced startup culture with learning opportunities.
• Participation in pioneering AI research.