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Functional transforms, jit and sharding on TPUs and GPUs.

Mentioned in 92 of 338 recorded research roles (27%) and 167 of 1,837 technical roles (9%), as of October 2, 2026.

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The course page has its planned syllabus and a sign-up, which tells us how many people want it.

These counts describe the October 2, 2026 snapshot; postings need a fresh check. Explore opportunities.

Everything here that teaches it

Nothing on this site teaches it yet. It is listed so you can see how often labs ask for it, and the course in preparation above has a sign-up.

Also in Make it fast and big: Inference and serving, PyTorch, Distributed training, GPU kernels.

Who asks for it

Recorded roles that mention it

167 recorded postings mention it. Here are the newest 60 research, fellowship, applied and ML-systems roles; the rest are on the role pages linked above. Each title opens the lab's own posting.

  1. AI Research Engineer, Post-Training ↗

    Lovable · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  2. Machine Learning Scientist ↗

    Relace · Research scientists and engineers · Master's, PhD or equivalent

  3. Software Engineer, Distributed Systems ↗

    Thinking Machines Lab · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $300k to $350k base

  4. Software Engineer, Inference ↗

    Thinking Machines Lab · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $300k to $350k base

  5. Research Engineer, Asta ↗

    Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred · $129k to $193k base

  6. Research Engineer, Climate Modeling ↗

    Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred · $147k to $220k base

  7. Research Scientist, Climate Modeling ↗

    Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required · $167k to $261k base

  8. Senior Research Engineer, Olmo + Molmo ↗

    Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $174k to $261k base

  9. Performance Engineer, GPU ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $280k to $850k base

  10. Performance Engineer, Inference Systems ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base

  11. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base

  12. Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning) ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base

  13. Research Engineer, Discovery ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base

  14. Research Engineer, Interpretability ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $315k to $560k base

  15. Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base

  16. Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  17. Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  18. Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base

  19. Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base

  20. Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling - London ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  21. Research Engineer, RL Engineering ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base

  22. Staff Software Engineer, Inference ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  23. Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems) ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  24. Staff+ Software Engineer, Inference Velocity ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $405k to $485k base

  25. Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems) ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base

  26. Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Inference Path ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base

  27. TPU Kernel Engineer ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $280k to $850k base

  28. Applied Researcher, Audio ↗

    Cartesia · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $200k to $350k base

  29. Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer ↗

    Character.AI · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $150k to $350k base

  30. Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $235k to $325k base

  31. Machine Learning Intern/Co-op (Winter 2027) ↗

    Cohere · Fellowships, residencies and internships · No degree stated

  32. Member of Technical Staff, Data Analysis and Evaluation ↗

    Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  33. Member of Technical Staff, Integration/RL Team (Research Engineer) ↗

    Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  34. Member of Technical Staff, Modeling ↗

    Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  35. Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training ↗

    Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  36. Member of Technical Staff, Training Infra Engineer ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  37. Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  38. Research Internship (Winter 2027) ↗

    Cohere · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD required

  39. Senior Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal AI ↗

    Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  40. Senior Member of Technical Staff, Safety and Security for Agents ↗

    Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  41. Senior ML Systems Engineer, Frameworks & Tooling ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  42. Senior Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure (HPC) ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  43. Site Reliability Engineer, Inference Infrastructure ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $160k to $260k base

  44. Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure ↗

    Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $190k to $325k base

  45. Post-training Agentic Research Scientist, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  46. Research Engineer, Gemini Omni, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  47. Research Engineer, GenAI, Information Tasks, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred

  48. Research Engineer, Generative Media, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred

  49. Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred

  50. Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred

  51. Research Engineer, World Models, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred

  52. Research Scientist, Agents, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  53. Research Scientist, Multilingual, Multicultural and Multimodal LLM, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  54. Research Scientist/Engineer, Autonomous Security, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  55. Research Scientist/Engineer, Frontier Reasoning, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred

  56. Senior Staff Research Scientist, Recommendation Systems, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  57. Software Engineer, Model Inference, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent

  58. Staff Software Engineer, Inference Performance Optimization, GenAI, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent