# AI Systems, Model Optimization at Unconventional AI

- Company: Unconventional AI
- What the company does: Unconventional AI is rethinking the foundations of compute to bring biology-scale energy efficiency to AI. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and a16z.
- Company website: https://unconv.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, CA I US Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://unconv.ai/careers/?gh_jid=4272105009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/unconventional-ai-ai-systems-model-optimization/

## About the role

As a Member of Technical Staff, AI Systems, Model Optimization, you will develop the path from model architecture to physical silicon. You will develop the training techniques, optimization strategies, and infrastructure required to make AI models run efficiently on our novel compute substrates, closing the loop between model design and tapeout.

## What they're looking for

- Education: An MS/PhD or equivalent research/project experience in a quantitative field such as AI/Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Applied Math
- Software Development: Deep experience with PyTorch, including its internals, torch.compile, and distributed data parallel (DDP) / fully sharded data parallel (FSDP) libraries

Tags: Engineering