Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
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About the role

About Osmosis

At Osmosis, we help companies use cutting-edge reinforcement learning techniques to fine-tune open-source language models that beat foundation models on performance, latency, and cost. 

We’ve raised $7M in funding from Y Combinator, top institutional investors like CRV and Audacious Ventures, as well as angel investors including Paul Graham (Y Combinator), Erik Bernhardsson (Modal Labs), Misha Laskin (Reflection AI), and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel). 

About the Role

We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to high-performance distributed training infrastructure for RL at scale. You'll work directly with our founding team and design partners to push the boundaries of what's possible with post-training and continual learning systems.

This role requires expertise in RL algorithms, distributed training, and low-level optimization. You'll have exceptional agency to make impactful decisions while working in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment.

Responsibilities

You’ll contribute to work in areas like:

  • Distributed Training Infrastructure: implement new RL algorithms and build scalable post-training pipelines
  • Resource Management & Optimization: design infrastructure systems for efficient GPU utilization and dynamic resource allocation
  • Customer-Facing Work: work directly with customers on production deployments and custom model development

Technology

  • Backend: Python FastAPI, Golang
  • Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js
  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS Fargate, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker
  • ML Frameworks: Verl / slime / Megatron-LM / SkyRL, PyTorch (FSDP experience is a plus), vLLM / SGLang
  • Databases: DynamoDB, S3

About Osmosis

Reinforcement Learning (RL) for AI Agents

Required skills

Reinforcement learning (RL)

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Job details

Salary

$180,000 - $250,000

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

1+ years

Company

NameOsmosis
IndustryB2B
Team Size6

Funding

Total raised

$6.8M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
CRV
AAudacious Ventures
Alumni Ventures
IImagination Capital

Founders

Kasey Zhang

Kasey Zhang

CEO & Co-Founder

LinkedIn
Andy Lyu

Andy Lyu

CTO & Co-Founder

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.