AI Systems, Language & Reasoning Models
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AI Systems, Language & Reasoning Models
Unconventional, Inc.
Role Description As a Member of Technical Staff, Language & Reasoning Models, you will drive the development of foundational language and reasoning models that fundamentally leverage the dynamics of our novel silicon. Your goal is to map the behaviors of modern language models directly onto the physics of our hardware. You will sit at the intersection of NLP/reasoning research and hardware codesign, proving that high-fidelity, large-scale language understanding and generation can be achieved natively on an unconventional computing substrate. What You'll Do - Model Development: Design, train, and scale next-generation language and reasoning architectures (such as transformers, state space models, diffusion/flow models, and deep equilibrium models) specifically tailored for unconventional compute. - Physics-Informed Architecture: Rethink standard sequence modeling to exploit the continuous-time dynamics of silicon, moving away from layers of inefficient digital abstraction. - Evaluation & Scaling: Establish the training recipes, loss functions, and evaluation metrics needed to reach the frontier of language comprehension, logical reasoning, and generation speed while maintaining the massive energy efficiency of our platform. - Extreme Codesign: Collaborate with hardware designers and theorists, and system builders to co-design the model architecture alongside the underlying physical compute primitives. Qualifications - Education: An MS/PhD or equivalent research/project experience in a quantitative field such as AI/Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Applied Math. - Experience: Deep, hands-on expertise in the theory, architecture, and training of modern foundation models (transformers, SSMs, text diffusion/flow, etc.). - Systems Fluency: Hands-on, battle-tested experience dealing with model scaling. You have successfully designed and executed full-scale, distributed training runs for large language or reasoning models, managing the complexities of massive compute clusters. - Software Development: You are fluent in modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or JAX) and have a proven track record of writing clean, scalable training code for large language models. Requirements - Unconventional Experience: As a bonus, you may have experience working with hardware-in-the-loop training, mixed-signal hardware, quantization, or physics-informed neural networks. Benefits - A comprehensive package including best-in-class health benefits. - 401k matching. - Truly unlimited PTO. - Complimentary meals in our Palo Alto office.
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