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Member of Technical Staff - ML Infra

Causal Labs

Causal Labs

Software Engineering, IT, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 15, 2025

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain large distributed ML training and inference clusters

  • Develop efficient, scalable end-to-end pipelines to manage petabyte-scale datasets and model training throughout the entire ML lifecycle

  • Research and test various training approaches including parallelization techniques and numerical precision trade-offs across different model scales

  • Analyze, profile and debug low-level GPU operations to optimize performance

  • Stay up-to-date on research to bring new ideas to work

What we’re looking for

We value a relentless approach to problem-solving, rapid execution, and the ability to quickly learn in unfamiliar domains.

  • Strong grasp of state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference workloads

  • Demonstrated proficiency with distributed training frameworks (e.g. FSDP, DeepSpeed) to train large foundation models

  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and their ML/AI service offerings

  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

  • Background working on distributed task management systems and scalable model serving & deployment architectures

  • Understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and version control best practices for ML systems

You don’t have to meet every single requirement above.