Staff AI Research Engineer (Anterior Labs)

We’re looking for our founding team members of ‘Anterior Labs’. Anterior Labs is our applied research arm, where we believe that “applied” is synonymous with “shipped”. Without benefitting users, research goes unused - this isn’t that kind of team. We ship. Shipping research is difficult and involves problems that live in an grey area somewhere between infrastructure and research. We’re looking for exceptional high agency staff level research engineers who can performing LLM inference accurately at scale. You’ll work with our infrastructure domain experts to deploy these systems to get your models into production.

About the role

• You'll take applied machine learning from research papers into production

• You'll work with our senior infrastructure team to optimise these systems for speed, scale, and cost for our enterprise customers

• You'll drive our efforts to improve our LLM-based system’s performance for our custom domain, including fine-tuning and/or pertaining LLMs, creating efficient agents networks, etc.

• You'll collaborate with product and clinical teams to rapidly prototype and deliver innovative solutions

About you

We require expertise, not necessarily years of experience, in the following:

• You've taken research into production before

• You have proven experience in hosting large language models in distributed systems

• You've worked with open source models like Llama/Deepseek

• You know how to get into the nuts and bolts of PyTorch / Jax

• You have experience in applied research with a product focus

Preferred by not required

• You have experience building large scale on-line evaluation pipelines

• You have experience with deploying machine learning models over 70B parameters or multi-GPU systems

What’s in it for you?

We're a default in person culture with flexibility. If you require a yoga break, then hit the studio. If you require high-protein or pescatarian meals, then we’ll stock the fridge. However you like to work, we see it as our job to facilitate.

You’ll also enjoy the following benefits:

• Health and dental benefits

• Flexible holiday policy

• Free office lunch, every day

• We’re a default in-person culture and will cover your commute