# Research Member of Technical Staff- Training Systems at Rhoda

- Company: Rhoda
- What the company does: Redefining Robotic Intelligence. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.rhoda.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rhoda-ai/643d697d-45c4-4505-8967-433df7873134
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rhoda-research-member-of-technical-staff-training-systems/

## About the role

We're looking for a Staff / Principal ML Training Systems Engineer to own training systems performance end-to-end. You will define how our models train at scale — driving efficiency, scalability, and correctness across large-scale multimodal training. This is a core systems role, not infrastructure support. Your work directly determines how efficiently we use compute, how well models scale across thousands of GPUs, and how quickly research can iterate.

## What they're looking for

- Proven track record improving large-scale distributed training performance
- Deep hands-on experience with modern ML stacks (PyTorch required, JAX a plus)
- Strong understanding of data / tensor / pipeline parallelism, sharded training (FSDP / ZeRO-style), communication patterns and overlap strategies, and scaling behavior across large GPU clusters
- Strong systems intuition — ability to reason across compute, communication, and memory bottlenecks
- Exceptional debugging and measurement ability: turn "training is slow" into clear bottlenecks, experiments, and validated improvements
- High ownership mindset and comfort in a fast-moving environment

Tags: Research