# Pre-Training Research Engineer at Sciforium

- Company: Sciforium
- What the company does: Sciforium builds the next generation of AI models with unprecedented efficiency, privacy, and versatility. Backed by SignalFire.
- Company website: https://sciforium.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $165K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Sciforium/90901079-84d8-46fd-90a4-f52e1bd6943c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sciforium-pre-training-research-engineer/

## About the role

As a Pre-training Research Engineer, you’ll focus on model implementation, pertaining and scaling, and improving the quality of our byte-native and multimodal foundation models. You’ll build and iterate quickly on research ideas, contribute production-grade training code and infrastructure, and help deliver high-quality base models that can serve real-world use cases at scale.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in machine learning research or engineering, with a proven track record of developing and pre-training large language or multimodal foundation models
- Software Engineering: Strong general software engineering skills, with the ability to write robust and performant training code
- ML Foundations: Solid understanding of deep learning fundamentals and modern pre-training methods and literature
- Research and Experimentation: Ability to quickly implement research ideas and evaluate them using clear baselines, ablations, metrics, and analysis
- GPU and Distributed Training: Hands-on experience running training workloads in GPU-based environments, with familiarity with distributed training
- Education: MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a related field

Tags: Engineering