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Our approach combines frontier-scale pre-training, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.\r\nAbout The RoleAs a Research Engineer, you'll work on training, evaluating, and serving large AI models and new inference-time compute techniques, build internet-scale datasets, and help prototype new research and product ideas.\r\nWhat You'll Work OnOptimize inference throughput for novel model architectures\r\nContribute to frameworks used for our research and production workloads\r\nTrain trillion-parameter models on large GPU clusters\r\nCurate post-training datasets to improve targeted capabilities\r\nBuild out internet-scale data pipelines and crawlers\r\nDesign, prototype, and optimize new model architectures\r\nContribute to research across long-context, inference-time compute, RL, and more\r\nWhat We're Looking ForStrong general software engineering skills\r\nThorough knowledge of the deep learning literature\r\nExperience with pre- and post-training of LLMs\r\nAbility to come up with and evaluate research ideas\r\nExperience working with large distributed systems\r\nAbility to handle large ETL workloads\r\nCompensation, Benefits, And Perks (US)Annual salary ranges between $225K - $550K based on experience\r\nEquity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary\r\n401(k) plan with 6% salary matching\r\nGenerous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents\r\nUnlimited paid time off\r\nVisa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible\r\nA small, fast-paced, highly focused team\r\nMagic strives to be the place where high-potential individuals can do their best work. We value quick learning and grit just as much as skill and experience.\r\nOur CultureIntegrity. Words and actions should be aligned\r\nHands-on. At Magic, everyone is building\r\nTeamwork. We move as one team, not N individuals\r\nFocus. Safely deploy AGI. Everything else is noise\r\nQuality. 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