Machine Learning Engineer

About Atla

Atla is committed to engineering safe, beneficial AI systems that will have a massive positive impact on the future of humanity. We are a London-based start-up building the most capable AI evaluation models. Become part of our growing world-class team, backed by Y Combinator, Creandum, and the founders of Reddit, Cruise, Rappi, Instacart and more.

Role

As Atla’s Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll spearhead the scaling of our fine-tuning and inference frameworks for large language models.

• Build an automated fine-tuning framework that can scale to the next order of magnitude of training runs.
• Explore novel synthetic data generation techniques in close collaboration with our research team to ensure high-quality and diverse data at scale.
• Engineer robust, high-performance inference platforms to ensure our products' reliability, throughput and speed at scale.
• Collaborate in defining and steering Atla’s evolving inference and training stack working with our researchers, founders and advisors to develop the most powerful evaluation models.
• Lead and grow our engineering organisation, setting a high bar of excellence as a core member of the Atla team.

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Please note that this role is in-person (we can sponsor visas and offer international relocation support as a UK AI Futures partner!)

Qualifications

Evidence of exceptional ML engineering ability:

• Proficiency in creating and managing multi-instance clusters for parallel training across GPUs/TPUs, preferably using PyTorch and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience with serving large ML models at scale, including quantisation and distributed computing.
• Experience in operating orchestration systems using SLURM, Ray, or similar.
• Familiarity with latest AI research and its implementation.

Nice to have

• Interested in and thoughtful about of the impacts of AI technology.

About you

You are going to thrive at Atla with the following mindset:

• Collaborative and team-oriented, with strong communication skills.
• Comfortable with the uncertainty and fast pace of a hyper-growth startup.
• Willingness to continuously learn and adapt in a dynamic environment.
• Unpretentious and hard working; find the best ideas wherever they come from.

Compensation

• £100K - £300K GBP
• Significant stake in equity as one of the first joiners
• Pension plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Join our driven team to make a dent in the universe by engineering safe, beneficial AI systems!