# Research Scientist 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/3f573ea4-5f34-471f-a05e-2561ecb10547
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pluralis-research-scientist/

## About the role

Solve the open problems : Identify the questions that block Protocol Learning at scale. communication efficiency, convergence under churn and staleness, heterogeneity, robustness to malicious participants. Publish in Tier-1 venues : The problems are hard and largely unclaimed. Solve them, and publish.

## What they're looking for

- Research excellence (required) : PhD in machine learning with publications in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
- Distributed ML experience : Hands-on experience in large-scale distributed training and compression strategies
- Implementation skills : Strong programming ability in PyTorch
- Mission alignment : You believe Protocol Learning is the viable third path for collective, trustless, and sovereign AI

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