Machine Learning Systems Researcher

Lightmatter is a photonic-computing company developing optical interconnects and light engines for AI-scale data centers.

Mountain View, United States
About Lightmatter

Founded in 2017 by MIT researchers, Lightmatter develops photonic infrastructure for AI, including its Passage interconnect platform and Guide light engine.

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About the Role

You will model the performance of systems running AI training and inference workloads. You will design customer reference platforms with product and solutions architecture partners, monitor machine-learning research developments, and publish research papers and technical content.

Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • 2 to 5 years of industry or research experience
  • Background in machine-learning systems research, performance evaluation, and performance modeling
  • Experience with machine-learning and deep-learning methods
  • Knowledge of large language model training and inference frameworks
  • Knowledge of AI compute, networking technologies, topologies, paradigms, and trade-offs
  • Academic publications in relevant journals and industry conferences
  • Ability to independently own projects from conception to completion
  • Capacity to comply with U.S. export control laws

Responsibilities

  • Stay current on machine-learning research advancements
  • Build tools to model system performance for AI training and inference workloads
  • Design customer reference platforms with product and solutions architecture teams
  • Provide machine-learning expertise
  • Publish academic papers, whitepapers, blog posts, and marketing collateral

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement savings matching program
  • Life insurance
  • Vacation, sick time, and public holidays
  • Paid family leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible hybrid workplace model
  • Equity grants for eligible full-time employees
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