Systems Engineer, Together AI
$160-230k
+Equity
Cloud platform for building generative AI
Job no longer available
Cloud platform for building generative AI
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$160-230k
+Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience
- Strong understanding of HPC architectures, including cluster and cloud configurations
- Experience with job schedulers and resource managers (e.g. Slurm)
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems (e.g., Red Hat, CentOS)
- Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash)
- Experience with network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, InfiniBand)
- Understanding of data management and storage concepts (e.g., Lustre, GPFS)
- Familiarity with performance optimization and troubleshooting techniques
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Desirable
- Experience with containerization and virtualization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Familiarity with machine learning and artificial intelligence frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
- Experience with data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
- Certification in HPC technologies (e.g., HPC Certification, Linux Certification)
What the job involves
- As the Research Systems Engineer, you will partner with research professionals to design, implement, and maintain high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and cloud environments to support research and development activities. You will collaborate with research professionals to ensure seamless operation of research environments, including job scheduling, resource allocation, and data management
- Provide expertise and guidance in HPC infrastructure, design, implementation, and optimization
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for our Research team. Troubleshoot and resolve any system related problems to ensure the Research team’s success in using the environments
- Lead the installation and upgrades of system hardware and software, including computational systems, clusters, standalone machines, storage systems and a variety of network fabrics including Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fibre Channel
- Coordinate across multi-vendor resources, manage escalations effectively, handle complex issues, and ensure timely and satisfactory resolutions
- Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides to facilitate knowledge sharing within the Research team
- Contribute to the creation of training materials to enable the Research team’s success and platform adoption
- Research new and emerging technologies, evaluate workflows and plans, and make recommendations for future improvements to the HPC environment
Our take
Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.
Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.
The company has has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to develop its products to cater for larger organisations, as well as expanding its compute capacity across the world.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$106m
SERIES A
Nov 2023
$102.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $228.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health insurance plans
- Dental and vision insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
- Mental health support and services
- Income protection & retirement
- 401(k) plan
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- STD & LTD insurance
- Monthly team lunches
- Flexible time off policy
- Team-driven celebrations and events
- Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene
Company values
- Empower Innovation - Everything works best when we help the open-source community work better together
- Discover the magic - Our wonder, curiosity, and hope drive us to find ways to make everyone’s lives better
- Do more with less - We are optimizers, making the most with what we have and not taking more than what we need
- Open to any prompt - We don’t know what’s possible until we try
- Model stewardship - We build everything with the purpose of benefiting society
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ce Zhang
(CTO)Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vipul Ved Prakash
(CEO)Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.
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