# ML Research Engineer (Performance Engineering) at Morphic Robot

- Company: Morphic Robot
- What the company does: Morphic AI is transforming the future of storytelling using breakthrough AI technologies. Go from idea to final video effortlessly with Morphic.
- Company website: https://morphic.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/metamorphic/36e2130d-caa6-4dc7-a652-77b751a1a77d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/morphic-robot-ml-research-engineer-performance-engineering/

## 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

Tags: Technical Staff