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ML Research Engineer (Performance Engineering)

Morphic Robot · Palo Alto · On-site

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About Morphic Robot

Morphic AI is transforming the future of storytelling using breakthrough AI technologies. Go from idea to final video effortlessly with Morphic.

About the role

We are seeking Research Engineers to join our growing AI research team. You will be responsible for maximizing the training and inference performance of Metamorphic's foundation models, from quantization and low-precision training, to MoE routing optimization, to writing custom CUDA/Triton kernels for our novel architecture. This is a high-impact, technically deep role at the frontier of ML research and engineering.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
  • Strong software engineering skills with a proven track record of building complex systems
  • Strong proficiency in CUDA, Triton, or similar, with demonstrated experience writing and optimizing GPU kernels
  • Hands-on experience with mixed-precision and low-precision training and a practical understanding of numerical stability tradeoffs
  • Deep knowledge of transformer architectures at the implementation level
  • Experience with MoE architectures: routing algorithms, load balancing, and the systems-level challenges of expert dispatch across GPUs
More about this role

Metamorphic is developing new approaches to intelligence by combining machine learning with large-scale experimental neuroscience, informed by the principles that make the brain efficient, flexible, and robust. We are building foundation models trained on rich, continuous neural data — a high-resolution model of the brain at a scale never before possible.

Our founding team spans machine learning, neuroscience, and neurotechnology, with prior work including the MICrONS project , Neuropixels , and the Enigma project , as well as foundational scientific contributions in learning, neural computation, and generative modeling. Our work sits at the frontier of AI research, and we believe the highest-impact discoveries will come from researchers and engineers working as a single, tightly collaborative team.

The name Metamorphic reflects our belief that the next advances in intelligence will come from a change in form, beyond scale — from artificial to natural intelligence.

We are seeking Research Engineers to join our growing AI research team. You will be responsible for maximizing the training and inference performance of Metamorphic's foundation models, from quantization and...

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