Institute of Foundation Models
Open positions
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.
Machine Learning Engineer — Pre-training (LLM)
This engineer extends and scales distributed LLM pre-training infrastructure at a foundation-model research lab: modifying frameworks like DeepSpeed/FSDP, implementing distributed optimizers from math specs, and building launch, monitoring, and checkpointing systems across multi-node GPU clusters using PyTorch or JAX.
Machine Learning Engineer — GPU Kernel
Optimizes GPU/CUDA kernel performance for foundation-model training and inference at a dedicated AI research lab: profiling deep-learning workloads, building benchmarks and automation tools, and integrating high-performance kernels with PyTorch using C++ and Python.
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…
HPC Engineer
About MBZUAI The Institute for Foundation Models (IFM) operates some of the world's largest AI supercomputing environments. Position Summary This role provides operational coverage during Abu Dhabi overnight hours…
Machine Learning Engineer – World Model
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…
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…
Research Scientist
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…
Full Stack Software Engineer
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…