AI Engineer - Remote

Overview

Coastal Carbon is a seed-funded startup on a mission to create positive impact through earth observation and AI. We are looking for an AI Engineer to join our team and assist in scaling, building, and training large machine learning models.

In Short

• Collaborate with researchers and scientists to implement and scale proof-of-concept (POC) models.
• Rapidly implement the latest state-of-the-art methods from literature.
• Train large-scale foundation models with billions of parameters.
• Develop AI systems capable of accurately understanding the universe.
• Master various data modalities, including text, audio, images, and video.
• Build distributed training systems for AI models on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
• Ensure smooth operation of large ML training jobs.
• Debug and customize third-party source code.
• Resolve non-ML software issues related to data quality.
• Willingness to dive into large ML codebases for debugging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience with deep learning and transformer models.
• Proficiency in frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Familiarity with training and fine-tuning large models.
• Strong preference for in-person in Waterloo; remote work possible for exceptional candidates.

Benefits

• Work with a team of PhDs and engineers.
• Contribute to impactful projects in nature conservation and carbon dioxide removal.
• Opportunity for remote work.
• Be part of a startup backed by reputable investors.
• Access to high-performance computing resources.