Applied Methods
~metaResearch & ScienceMember of Technical Staff

Member of Technical Staff

Senior individual contributors at AI labs working on core model development, pre-training, post-training, and model optimization.

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54open jobs
22companies hiring
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

$ skills --core

Training and deploying large-scale language and multimodal models on distributed compute infrastructure

95%

Designing and executing model post-training workflows including supervised fine-tuning, preference alignment, and reinforcement learning

92%

Curating, generating, and filtering high-quality training datasets at scale across multiple modalities

88%

Developing robust evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for model capabilities

85%

Optimizing training and inference pipelines for performance and efficiency under production constraints

82%

Translating customer requirements into concrete technical specifications and modeling approaches

78%

Building and maintaining large-scale data processing pipelines and infrastructure

75%

Designing ablation studies and experiments to understand architectural and algorithmic tradeoffs

72%

Implementing custom neural network layers, loss functions, and distributed training code

70%
$ skills --emerging

Architecting multimodal systems that integrate text, vision, audio, and video understanding

72%

Developing safety and alignment techniques for language models and agentic systems

68%

Building systems for model-based planning, reasoning, and inference-time computation

65%

Creating synthetic data generation pipelines to augment training sets

62%

Developing evaluation frameworks that measure real-world model impacts and risks

60%

Designing self-supervised learning approaches for continuous, high-dimensional data

58%
$ skills --soft

Communicating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including non-technical stakeholders

88%

Taking end-to-end ownership of projects from requirements through delivery and iteration

85%

Collaborating cross-functionally across research, engineering, product, and customer teams

82%

Translating business metrics and customer outcomes into technical decision-making

72%

Prioritizing pragmatic, measurable outcomes over theoretical novelty

70%

Working autonomously with minimal guidance while maintaining high code quality standards

68%

Mentoring junior engineers and fostering professional growth

65%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonvery high
$ tech --framework
PyTorchvery high
JAXhigh
Apache Sparkmoderate
Raymoderate
FLUXlow
Stable Diffusionlow
$ tech --platform
CUDAhigh
Kuberneteslow
$ tech --tool
Dockermoderate
NCCLmoderate
$ tech --concept
GPUvery high
Diffusion modelshigh
Distributed traininghigh
Evaluation benchmarkshigh
Inference optimizationhigh
Reinforcement Learninghigh
Synthetic data generationhigh
Transformershigh
Vision-Language Modelshigh
Attention mechanismsmoderate
Model compressionmoderate
Multi-task learningmoderate
Retrieval-Augmented Generationmoderate
Speech-to-textmoderate
Text-to-speechmoderate
Tokenizationmoderate
Geminilow
Groklow
LFM2.5-Audiolow
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Open Jobs

54 open Member of Technical Staff jobs across 22 companies.

Cognition3d
Research, Mid-Training
San Francisco Bay Area·Research & Science
Cognition3d
Research, Post-Training Data
San Francisco Bay Area·Research & Science
Perplexity1w
Member of Technical Staff - AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives
San Francisco·Research & Science
Mistral AI1w
Applied Scientist / Research Engineer - Multimodal (Come to Singapore)
Paris·Research & Science
Liquid AI1w
Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied (Vision)
San Francisco·Research & Science
Liquid AI1w
Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML, RecSys
Boston·Research & Science
Liquid AI1w
Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied (Audio)
San Francisco·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training
London, UK·Research & Science
DeepMind2w
Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Risk Assessment
London, UK; New York City, New York, US; San Francisco, California, US·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - International Government
London, UK·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Government (Cleared)
Los Angeles, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Washington, D.C.·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Government
Washington, D.C.·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Reasoning
London, UK·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding
New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Grok Main Model
Palo Alto, CA·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training
Austin, TX; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Voice Model
Palo Alto, CA·Research & Science
xAI2w
Member of Technical Staff - Ads
Palo Alto, CA·Research & Science
Black Forest Labs2w
Member of Technical Staff - Image / Video Generation
Freiburg (Germany)·Research & Science
Cohere2w
Member of Technical Staff, Safety for Agents
London·Research & Science