About the Role
We build the fastest GPU compiler in the world, enabling customers to turn their dataset into a specialist model in days. This role involves owning the end-to-end modeling process, including SFT, RL, DPO, designing evaluations, and distillation.
Responsibilities
- Own the post-training pipeline end-to-end: data curation, SFT, preference optimization, RL, evals, distillation and finally deployment
- Design reward functions and RL looks along customer domain experts
- Build an eval harness trustworthy enough to make a ship/no-ship call within a short window
- Structure and generate datasets, including synthetic data pipelines
- Distill specialist models down into smaller models
- Drive the time-to-model by identifying and removing critical path bottlenecks
- Embed with customers as a forward-deployed researcher and hand over pipelines cleanly
Requirements
- Shipped post-trained models into production and can discuss tradeoffs
- Hands-on depth across SFT and RL (DPO, GRPO, PPO or similar)
- Ability to judge evaluation honestly: what to measure, what a result means, and when a number is misleading
- Comfortable owning data: curation, filtering, labeling workflows and synthetic generation
- Proficient in PyTorch or JAX
- Willing to collaborate with customers' domain experts to translate intuition into reward functions
Skills
- SFT
- RL
- DPO
- GRPO
- PPO
- PyTorch
- JAX
- Data Curation
- Synthetic Data Generation
- Model Distillation
- Evaluation Design
- Reward Function Design
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Member of Technical Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $275,000-$315,000
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- SF Tensor is building the future of high-performance compute for AI by rethinking and rebuilding the stack from hardware to cloud.
- We are developing a Kernel Optimizer and a Model Foundry to make compute faster, cheaper, and more available.
- Backed by Susa Ventures, Y Combinator, and other notable investors and industry leaders.
- We believe that advancements in AI require corresponding leaps in compute power.
