We're looking for founding team members for Anterior's Foundation Labs. Foundation Labs is Anterior's applied research arm, where "applied" means "shipped." Shipping research is challenging and involves problems that exist in a gray area, somewhere between infrastructure and research. We're looking for exceptional, self-driven staff-level research engineers who can perform LLM inference accurately at scale. You'll work with our infrastructure domain experts to deploy these systems and get your models into production.
About the role
You'll lead, design and implement the architecture for hosting our LLM-based systems from scratch
You'll work with our AI Research team to optimize logical reasoning systems for speed, scale, and cost for our enterprise customers
You'll play a key role in improving our LLM-based system's performance for our custom domain, including fine-tuning and/or pretraining LLMs, creating efficient agent networks, etc.
You'll collaborate closely with product and clinical teams to rapidly prototype and deliver innovative solutions
About you
You have extensive Python/Golang/Rust programming experience
You have expertise in machine learning and GPU-based compute architectures
You've developed software using LLMs (OAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) and SLMs (Llama, Phi, etc.)
You have experience with distributed data processing and large-scale system architecture
You have the ability to identify and solve complex problems with the communication skills to match and effectively convey your ideas and solutions
Your peers and colleagues would describe you as a self-driven, curious individual
Preferred but not required
You've worked with research teams before to enhance search quality
You have a track record of building large-scale knowledge bases
You have experience deploying machine learning models with over 70B parameters or multi-GPU systems
What's in it for you?
Our culture is primarily in-person with flexibility, and we do what's needed to help you do your best work—from fridges stocked with high-protein meal prep to flexible vacation policies.
You'll also enjoy the following benefits:
Health and dental benefits
Flexible vacation policy
Free office lunch, every day
We're a primarily in-person culture and will cover your commute