Machine Learning Engineer (LLMs)

Toronto 24 months ago Remote Full-time External
Negotiable
// Company: Moz://a.ai is a pioneering technology studio dedicated to building trustworthy AI. Our mission is to incubate breakthrough technologies for the open-source community. We collaborate with academic labs, industry partners and open-source collectives and translate state-of-the-art research into AI technologies that are grounded in trust, transparency and user agency. We look to challenge the dominance of closed platforms, seek to empower user choice and help foster an inclusive and healthy digital landscape. There are many potential futures possible with AI - we strive to realize the one where AI is open-source, accountable, and reliable. Role : The ML team at Moz://a.ai is using cutting-edge research and industry-grade tooling to develop open-source technologies to support our mission. As a machine learning engineer, you will play a critical role in building, training, evaluating, deploying and monitoring large language models in this context. Responsibilities : Build and deploy complex foundational models and data pipelines on our cloud infrastructure. Implement distributed training strategies well-suited for custom language modeling. Design and develop frameworks for experimentation and simulation. Assess and benchmark developments in the field at large. Collaborate cross-functionally across research, engineering and innovation as necessary. Employ best practices in terms of data, development, versioning and engineering to ensure reliability and reproducibility. Skills : Prior experience in natural language processing, including training, data pipelines and inference (ideally across varied tasks and use-cases). Proficiency with high-performance distributed ML systems in general and language modeling with transformers specifically. Passion for optimization and efficiency, extracting quality and performance wherever possible. Rigorous about maintaining documentation, writing design docs and logging experimentation. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage product managers, researchers, engineers and executives. Interest in trustworthy AI, and a deep passion for open source. Genuinely collaborative, team-oriented mindset, with a proactive attitude to support colleagues wherever possible. Results-oriented, with the ability to navigate complex scenarios yet still deliver impact. Why Join ? Mission-driven organization committed to advancing an alternative vision of AI. Work on cutting-edge projects and collaborate with experts from some of the best labs across academia and industry. Be part of a collaborative, innovative and interdisciplinary team that values creativity, kindness and intellectual curiosity. Remote-friendly with flexible work hours. Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits. Many unique growth opportunities and support for lifelong learning. If you are fascinated by the potential of language models, are passionate about building AI for good, and are eager to contribute to the open source community, we’d love to hear from you.