# Research Engineer - Geo-Distributed Inference 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/1db0fad2-c4a4-491d-9065-03bcb40f65d0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pluralis-research-engineer-geo-distributed-inference/

## About the role

Own the inference stack : You build and own it end-to-end. Pipeline-parallel execution, placement and routing, the transport, the serving engine, and failure handling. You set the direction, and you make things happen. Invent the algorithms : Making inference fast on consumer hardware over the public internet takes methods that don't exist yet. You design them, validate them, and put them in production.

## What they're looking for

- Shipped serving systems : You've shipped serving-engine internals or built a large-scale inference system yourself, and you can do this work hands-on today
- Low-bandwidth networking : Experience with systems that run in low-bandwidth, high-latency settings like the public internet is a strong signal
- Mission alignment : You believe Protocol Learning is the viable third path for collective, trustless, and sovereign AI

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