Institute of Foundation Models
Open positions
Community Manager
About IFM The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is a global AI research lab dedicated to open and independent development of frontier-class foundation models. Launched in May 2025 by MBZUAI, IFM operates from…
Developer Relations Manager
Developer Relations Manager at IFM, an AI research lab, drives developer adoption of its open-source LLMs from Sunnyvale: building docs and tested examples, giving demos and workshops, partnering with ecosystem maintainers, and feeding adoption findings back to researchers. Hands-on Python/LLM role with up to 25% travel.
Data & Eval Operations Program Manager
A program manager who builds and owns, from scratch, the data acquisition and evaluation operations programs for a foundation model research lab — managing data vendors and the full data budget, running and streamlining eval processes, and partnering closely with researchers, engineers, Legal, and Procurement.
Eval360 - Error Analysis Engineer
About the Institute of Foundation Models The Institute of Foundation Models is a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance AI…
Research Scientist - The Diffusion LLM Team
About the Institute of Foundation Models We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI…
Research Scientist - Agents
About the Institute of Foundation Models We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI…
Research Engineer/Scientist - Speech/Audio Machine Learning
About the Institute of Foundation Models We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI…
Community Development Manager
About the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) The Institute of Foundation Models is a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, deploying, and risk-managing large-scale AI systems. We drive innovation in…
Senior MLOps Engineer
About the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) The Institute of Foundation Models is a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, deploying, and risk-managing large-scale AI systems. We drive innovation in…