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Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining Architecture and Scaling

Hark · San Jose · On-site

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About Hark

At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.

About the role

The Omni team at Hark is building the next generation of AI experiences beyond text, enabling models to understand and generate content across multiple modalities, including text, audio, and beyond. Our goal is to create seamless, real-time multimodal intelligence that powers intuitive and immersive user experiences. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience training large models and making trade-offs among model quality, compute cost, and training stability
  • Strong experimental judgment, including designing controlled experiments that distinguish between competing hypotheses
  • Experience applying scaling laws to experiment design and evaluating extrapolations from smaller training runs
  • Experience implementing and debugging distributed training workloads across GPU clusters
  • Strong engineering skills, including implementing research ideas, profiling training workloads, and debugging model behavior
  • A record of improving model quality or training efficiency through research, engineering, open-source contributions, or production work
More about this role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

The Omni team at Hark is building the next generation of AI experiences beyond text, enabling models to understand and generate content across multiple modalities, including text, audio, and beyond. Our goal is to create seamless, real-time multimodal intelligence that powers intuitive and immersive user experiences.

As part of the Omni team, you will build the multimodal foundation models at the core of this effort. You will work across the full pretraining stack, from...

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