# Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining Architecture and Scaling at Hark

- Company: Hark
- What the company does: At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.
- Company website: https://hark.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hark/jobs/4469401009?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hark-member-of-technical-staff-pretraining-architecture-and-scaling/

## 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

Tags: AI Foundation Models

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