Research Scientist

Pantograph

$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with large-scale pre-training in video, multimodal, image, or language domains.
  • Background in self-supervised, goal-conditioned, or unsupervised reinforcement learning.
  • Familiarity with robotics models trained on large-scale datasets.
  • Proficient in video generation or high-dimensional sequence modeling.
  • Experience training models on large GPU clusters and using Kubernetes.
  • Commitment to scientific integrity and accurate measurement of metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable methods for large datasets.
  • Develop and evaluate models focused on simplicity and effectiveness.
  • Utilize GPU clusters and Kubernetes for research tasks.
  • Conduct experiments to assess the impact of innovative interventions.
  • Collaborate with teams to enhance research methods and technologies.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours to encourage work-life balance.
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and large datasets.
  • Focus on scientific integrity and innovation in research.
  • Encouragement for open-source contributions and personal projects.
  • Collaboration with experts in the field and potential for networking.
Full Job Description
Were looking for research scientists who want to scale simple methods across the largest datasets available.

You might be a good fit if you:
  • Have experience with one or more of:
    • Large-scale pre-training (video, multimodal, image, or language)
    • Self-supervised, goal-conditioned, or unsupervised RL
    • Robotics models, especially those trained on large-scale data
    • Video generation or other large-scale sequence modeling over high-dimensional observations (e.g. pixels)
  • Have trained models on large GPU clusters and are comfortable working with Kubernetes
  • Believe simple methods that scale beat complicated ones that dont, and reach for the simplest thing that could work
  • Strive to find simple, expressive metrics and measure them accurately
  • Value scientific integrity and seek to understand the true effect of different interventions

Nice to have:
  • Experience with JAX
  • Interest in problems adjacent to the critical path - new modalities, alternatives to text for reasoning, pixel-space modeling, or automating research itself
  • A strong background in proof-based mathematics, including topics such as:
    • Measure-theoretic probability
    • Stochastic processes
    • Optimization theory

We care much more about what you can do than any specific credential. Were interested in published work or lab experience, but equally in strong open-source contributions or personal projects. If youre excited about scaling general models that learn from and act in the real world, wed love to talk.

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