Senior Research Scientist

About the Company

Sciforium is an AI infrastructure company developing next-generation multimodal AI models and a proprietary, high-efficiency serving platform. Backed by multi-million-dollar funding and direct sponsorship from AMD, the team is scaling rapidly to build the full stack powering frontier AI models and real-time applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead research in advanced machine learning areas such as LLMs, generative AI, foundational modeling, and novel Transformer architectures
• Design, implement, and evaluate novel ML algorithms using PyTorch and JAX
• Conduct large-scale distributed training experiments using multi-GPU/TPU systems
• Drive performance improvements through framework debugging and training pipeline enhancements
• Produce high-quality research output including papers, patents, and reproducible code
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate research prototypes into scalable production systems
• Mentor junior researchers and contribute to a world-class AI research culture

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Mathematics, or a related field
• 5+ years of academic or industry research experience
• Proven track record of publications in top-tier venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, or ECCV
• Strong coding proficiency in Python
• Deep experience in PyTorch and/or JAX
• Expertise in distributed training at scale
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling, and speed optimization

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience with JAX/Flax/XLA stack
• Experience with efficient model serving, inference optimization, or model compression
• Hands-on research or engineering experience with diffusion models or generative modeling
• Open-source contributions to major ML frameworks

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k plan
• Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
• Flexible time off
• Competitive salary and equity