AI Research Engineer - AI Safety / LLMs / VLMs
European Tech Recruit is partnering with an AI safety startup to build a safety, reliability, and optimization layer for advanced AI systems. The team trains proprietary LLMs that run faster and more efficiently than open source and commercial options.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
AI Research Engineer - AI Safety / LLMs / VLMs
We're partnered with a genuinely exciting AI safety startup focused on building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for advanced AI systems.
Their platform uses natural language policies to define model behavior, which are automatically tested and improved at scale. Backed by eleven million dollars from leading investors, the team trains proprietary LLMs that run faster and more efficiently than open source and commercial options. This is a small, focused team where you will work on challenging problems and ship quickly.
They're seeking an AI Research Engineer to join them team on a permanent basis, working on a hybrid model at their HQ in Paris.
What You Will Do
- Train LLMs and VLMs with frameworks such as Megatron or DeepSpeed
- Build and scale Mixture of Experts architectures
- Develop multimodal pipelines across text, images, and audio
- Write custom Triton kernels to remove training bottlenecks
- Experiment with new architectures, hyperparameters, and datasets
You Are a Great Fit If You
- Have experience fine tuning large models
- Understand distributed training including tensor, pipeline, and expert parallelism plus ZeRO and FSDP
- Can write Triton kernels for attention, MLPs, or custom ops
- Have worked on multimodal systems such as Llava style or Flamingo style models
- Focus on stability, convergence, and hardware efficiency
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Twenty days paid vacation
- Hybrid work from Paris with relocation support
- Top tier medical insurance
- High quality hardware and tools
- Paid subscriptions for AI agents and dev tools
- Twice yearly team off sites
Visa sponsorship and visa support is on offer, so international applicants are encouraged.
If this sounds interesting and you'd like to learn more, click the link below to apply or email me with a copy of your CV on smouland@eu-recruit.com
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