Member of Technical Staff, ResearchThe Token Company (YC W26, HF0 S26) • San Francisco, CAThe roleAs a Member of Technical Staff on the research team, you own the model training stack end to end: data, architecture, training, evaluation, and shipping compression models into production. This is a from-scratch model training role. You will spend your time designing and training models on NVIDIA B200s, not wiring up RAG pipelines or prompting other people's APIs.
Who you are- You have trained models from scratch. You have owned data, architecture and a training loop yourself, ideally in a research lab, a startup or a scale-up. Not only fine-tuning or calling an API.
- You are strong in ML fundamentals. You are fluent with transformers and comfortable turning a paper or a rough idea into a real training run.
- You learn fast. You get to the core of a hard problem quickly and iterate on new ideas without hand-holding.
- You care about production. You would rather see your model cut real inference costs for real users than add another line to a publication list.
You will stand out if you have- Pretrained a transformer, or done serious post-training or RL on one
- Built a novel architecture or training method with results to back it up
- Shipped a model you trained into something people actually use
Probably not a fit if- Your experience is mostly RAG, agents, prompt engineering, or fine-tuning existing models through an API
- You want to publish papers more than you want to ship models
Compensation and supportCompetitive base salary plus significant equity. We also cover housing, food, laundry and cleaning in San Francisco, sponsor visas, and give you the resources and a real seat to build the research team around you.
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