Job Summary:
MBZUAI is a dedicated research lab focused on advancing research and nurturing the next generation of AI builders. The role involves extending and scaling training systems for cutting-edge foundation model development, working alongside world-class researchers and engineers.
Responsibilities:
• Extend distributed training frameworks (e.g., DeepSpeed, FSDP, FairScale, Horovod)
• Implement distributed optimizers from mathematical specs
• Build robust config + launch systems across multi-node, multi-GPU clusters
• Own experiment tracking, metrics logging, and job monitoring for external visibility
• Improve training system reliability, maintainability, and performance
• Extend or modify training frameworks (e.g., DeepSpeed, FSDP) to support new use cases and architectures.
• Translate mathematical optimizer specs into distributed implementations.
• Create and debug multi-node launch scripts with flexible batch sizes, parallelism strategies, and hardware targets.
• Build systems for experiment tracking, job monitoring, and logging usable by collaborators and researchers.
• Write production-quality code and tests for ML infra in PyTorch or JAX; ensure reliability and maintainability at scale.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in ML systems, infra, or distributed training
• Experience modifying distributed ML frameworks (e.g., DeepSpeed, FSDP, FairScale, Horovod)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (Python, systems design, testing)
• Proven multi-node experience (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes, Ray) and debugging skills (e.g., NCCL/GLOO)
• Ability to implement algorithms across GPUs/nodes based on mathematical specs
• Experience working on an ML platform/ infrastructure, and/or distributed inference optimization team
• Experience with large-scale machine learning workloads (strong ML fundamentals)
Preferred:
• Exposure to mixed-precision training (e.g., bf16, fp8) with accuracy validation
• Familiarity with performance profiling, kernel fusion, or memory optimization
• Open-source contributions or published research (MLSys, ICML, NeurIPS)
• CUDA or Triton kernel experience
• Experience with large-scale pre-training
• Experience building custom training pipelines at scale and modifying them for custom needs
• Deep familiarity with training infrastructure and performance tuning
Company:
Official account of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. Dedicated to research, innovation, and empowering brilliant minds in AI. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, ARE, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.