ML Research Engineer, ML Systems

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Salary

$190K-$237K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

83% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

ML Research Engineer, ML Systems San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY Scale's ML platform (RLXF) team builds our internal distributed framework for large language model training and inference. The platform has been powering MLEs, researchers, data scientists and operators for fast and automatic training and evaluation of LLM's, as well as evaluation of data quality. Scale is uniquely positioned at the heart of the field of AI as an indispensable provider of training and evaluation data and end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle. You will work closely across Scale's ML teams and researchers to build the foundation platform that supports all our ML research and development. You will be building and optimizing the platform to enable our next generation of LLM training, inference and data curation. If you are excited about shaping the future AI via fundamental innovations, we would love to hear from you! You will: - Build, profile and optimize our training and inference framework - Collaborate with ML teams to accelerate their research and development and enable them to develop the next generation of models and data curation - Research and integrate state-of-the-art technologies to optimize our ML system Ideally you'd have: - Strong excitement about system optimization - Experience with multi-node LLM training and inference - Experience with developing large-scale distributed ML systems - Strong software engineering skills, proficient in frameworks and tools such as CUDA, Pytorch, transformers, flash attention, etc. - Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to operate in

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