Founding ML Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

We’re looking for someone who loves open-source and collaborating with the OSS community but also has deep understanding in how transformers and Unsloth works.

_MUST COMPLETE CHALLENGES BEFORE APPLYING: _https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1891194528931209644

Must have:

  • Deep knowledge and implementation experience with multi-GPU training techniques such as FSDP
  • Important contributions to ML open-source projects (e.g., transformers, TRL, kernels, Unsloth) with reviewable code.
  • Heavy experience working with ML frameworks like Unsloth, Transformers, TRL, and PyTorch.
  • Familiarity with inference engines such as vLLM
  • Familiarity with low-level languages and kernels like Triton
  • Understanding of cloud services such as GCP or AWS (bonus).

Can be initially remote, with the ability to work in-person in San Francisco later.

About Unsloth AI

Open-Source Reinforcement Learning (RL) & Fine-tuning for LLMs.

Required skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
Mathematica
Torch/PyTorch
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL)

Interested?

Let me introduce you to the founders.

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Job details

Salary

$200,000 - $500,000

Equity

0.3% - 0.7%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameUnsloth AI
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design
Team Size8

Funding

Total raised

$540K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Michael Han

Michael Han

LinkedIn
Daniel Han

Daniel Han

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.