# Research Engineer - Decentralized Training and Inference Verification at Pluralis

- Company: Pluralis
- What the company does: Pluralis Research works on Protocol Learning — decentralized, communication-efficient model-parallel training for foundation models. Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://pluralis.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pluralis-research/fb000d3c-9464-4230-9876-0910f20e5109
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pluralis-research-engineer-decentralized-training-and-inference-verification/

## About the role

Own the threat model : You enumerate what a malicious or careless worker can do across pre-training, post-training, and inference — training disruption and denial-of-service, free-riding, model poisoning and backdoors, data extraction from gradients and activations, reputation and reward manipulation — and you keep that model current as the network grows.

## What they're looking for

- Statistical depth : Deep expertise in statistics and probability, with the ability to design experiments, calibrate decision thresholds, and defend the error rates you claim
- Technical background : You know the solution space for verifying untrusted compute, from statistical testing to re-execution, cryptographic proofs, and trusted hardware, and you can argue what fits a permissionless network and what doesn't
- Mission alignment : You believe Protocol Learning is the viable third path for collective, trustless, and sovereign AI

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