Data Engineer - Multimodal Systems

Department: R&D - Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California.

The Role:

As a Data Engineer - Multimodal Systems, you will be a core contributor to creating, collecting, and improving Zyphra’s datasets and data pipelines across a variety of modalities. Your work will intersect with almost every team at Zyphra. You will be involved in collecting large-scale datasets and implementing and optimizing highly parallel data pipelines.

You’ll Work Across:

• Large-scale data collection across a variety of modalities (text, audio, image)

• Designing and working with highly efficient, parallelized data processing pipelines across modalities

• Designing and running rigorous experimental ablations to demonstrate the impact of new data improvements

What We're Looking For / Requirements:

• Strong implementation and prototyping ability

• Can take an idea from conception to experimentation quickly

• The ability to work well with others in a high-paced research setting

• Can rapidly learn new fields and are excited to implement new ideas

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale.

Qualifications / Additional Skills:

• Experience collecting, handling, and processing large datasets

• Experience with parallel Python programming frameworks such as Dask

• Understanding of the state-of-the-art in dataset curation across modalities

• A generally meticulous nature and a strong interest in actually looking at data and sanity checking things

• Strong grasp of proper experimental methodology for running rigorous ablations and other hypothesis testing

• Understanding of and interest in large-scale, highly parallel data processing pipelines.

• Proficiency with PyTorch and Python.

• Experience contributing to large pre-existing codebases and rapidly getting up to speed.

• Previously published machine learning research in well-respected venues.

• Postgraduate degree in a scientific subject (Computer Science, EE/EECS, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning)

Why Work at Zyphra:

• Our research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued

• We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas

• We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible

• We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans

• Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan

• Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis

• In-office snacks and meals provided

• Unlimited PTO and company holidays

• In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment