Research Scientist, AI Networking (PhD)

Meta

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience required before joining Meta.
  • PhD in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent experience required before joining Meta.
  • Experience in machine learning domains like high-speed networking, distributed ML training, and GPU architecture.
  • Knowledge of ML frameworks such as PyTorch is essential.
  • Work authorization is required at time of hire and ongoing during employment.

Responsibilities

  • Enable reliable and scalable distributed ML training on large-scale GPU infrastructure.
  • Enhance performance and reliability of GenAI/LLM training processes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve ML products.
  • Develop and implement performance tuning solutions for distributed systems.
  • Create customized software features and benchmarks for NCCL and PyTorch.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in AI and machine learning.
  • Chance to be part of a team driving innovation in distributed GPU communication.
  • Access to Meta's extensive computational resources and infrastructure.
  • Collaborative work culture with cross-functional teams.
Full Job Description
In this role, you will be a member of the AI Networking Software team and part of the bigger DC networking organization. The team develops and owns the software stack around NCCL (NVIDIA Collective Communications Library), which enables multi-GPU and multi-node data communication through HPC-style collectives. NCCL has been integrated into PyTorch and is on the critical path of multi-GPU distributed training. In other words, nearly every distributed GPU-based ML workload in Meta Production goes through the SW stack the team owns. At the high level, the team aims to enable Meta-wide ML products and innovations to leverage our large-scale GPU training and inference fleet through an observable, reliable and high-performance distributed AI/GPU communication stack. Currently, one of the team's focus is on building customized features, SW benchmarks, performance tuners and SW stacks around NCCL and PyTorch to improve the full-stack distributed ML reliability and performance (e.g. Large-Scale GenAI/LLM training) from the trainer down to the inter-GPU and network communication layer. We are seeking engineers to work on the space of GenAI/LLM scaling reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

Enabling reliable and highly scalable distributed ML training on Meta's large-scale GPU training infra with a focus on GenAI/LLM scaling

Minimum Qualifications
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• Specialized experience in one or more of the following machine learning/deep learning domains: High speed networking (RDMA), Distributed ML Training, GPU architecture, ML systems, AI infrastructure, high performance computing, performance optimizations, or Machine Learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred Qualifications
• Knowledge of ML, deep learning and LLM
• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences
• Experience in HPC and parallel computing
• Knowledge of GPU architectures and CUDA programming
• Experience with NCCL/RCCL/OneCCL and distributed GPU reliability/performance improvement on RoCE/Infiniband
• Experience with both data parallel and model parallel training, such as Distributed Data Parallel, Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP), Tensor Parallel, and Pipeline Parallel
• Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment
• Experience in AI framework and trainer development on accelerating large-scale distributed deep learning models
• Experience working with DL frameworks like PyTorch, Caffe2 or TensorFlow

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