Senior Applied Research Engineer
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Job overview
Fundamental is hiring a Senior Applied Research Engineer. Fundamental is an AI company focused on enterprise decision-making, founded by DeepMind alumni. They have developed NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model for structured records. The company aims to unlock value for businesses by providing predictive power. This role offers an opportunity to work on foundation model development and contribute to transforming how large companies make decisions.
Key focus areas include Profile end-to-end distributed training runs to identify bottlenecks, Contribute to architectural decisions that improve efficiency and reliability, and Design and implement model scaling, parallelization, and memory optimization techniques.
Successful candidates bring Experience Running Distributed Training Jobs, Strong Understanding of Modern ML Architectures, and Strong Programming Skills in Python. Important skills include Modern ML Architectures, Large-Scale Training Pipelines, Distributed Training Jobs On Multi-GPU Systems, Advanced Profiling, Debugging Across CPU, GPU, Memory Usage, Latency, And Inter-GPU Communication, and Python. Preferred (not required): NCCL, MPI, Distributed Communication Primitives, and PyTorch Internals.
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Full job description
About Fundamental Fundamental is an AI company pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Founded by DeepMind alumni, Fundamental has developed NEXUS – the world's most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM) – purpose-built for the structured records that actually drive enterprise decisions. Backed by world class investors and trusted by Fortune 100 companies, Fundamental unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict.
At Fundamental, you'll work on unprecedented technical challenges in foundation model development and build technology that transforms how the world's largest companies make decisions. This is your opportunity to be part of a category-defining company from the ground-up. Join the team defining the future of enterprise AI.
Key responsibilities
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Profile end-to-end distributed training runs to identify bottlenecks across compute, GPU memory, and inter-GPU communication
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Contribute to architectural decisions that improve the efficiency and reliability of large-scale training jobs, including developing Triton/CUDA kernels when needed
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Design and implement model scaling, parallelization, and memory optimization techniques for training workloads with very large context sizes
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Collaborate closely with ML Researchers to diagnose architectural inefficiencies, ensure new research ideas scale efficiently in practice, and spread internal knowledge about model efficiency and optimization
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Drive the productionization and serving of our models from the research side, including improving inference efficiency through techniques such as quantization
Must have
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Strong understanding of modern ML architectures and large-scale training pipelines
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Experience running distributed training jobs on multi-GPU systems
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Advanced profiling and debugging skills across CPU, GPU, memory usage, latency, and inter-GPU communication
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Strong programming skills in Python
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Experience with model scaling and parallelization strategies, including tensor and pipeline parallelism
Nice to have
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Familiarity with NCCL, MPI, and distributed communication primitives
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Knowledge of PyTorch and Triton internals
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Programming experience with C++ and CUDA
Benefits
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Competitive compensation with salary and equity
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Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents
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Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
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Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
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A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action
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