# Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining 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: 2026-03-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hark/jobs/4194156009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hark-member-of-technical-staff-pretraining/

## 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 vision. Our goal is to create seamless, real-time multimodal intelligence that powers intuitive and immersive user experiences.

## What they're looking for

- Proven track record of improving large-scale neural network performance through advances in pretraining data, modeling, or training systems
- Deep understanding of LLM or multimodal pretraining, including data pipelines, scaling behavior, and optimization
- Experience in data-driven experimentation, systematic analysis, and debugging at scale
- Experience building or working with large-scale training infrastructure and high-performance computing systems
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in fast-paced, research-driven environments

Tags: AI Foundation Models