Skills · General engineering
C++, Rust or Go
Not taught here
Systems languages for performance-critical infrastructure.
Mentioned in 47 of 339 recorded research roles (14%) and 347 of 1,827 technical roles (19%), in this recorded board.
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Also in General engineering: Working with customers, Cloud and Kubernetes.
Who asks for it
- Research scientists and engineers 47 of 339
- Fellowships, residencies and internships 3 of 32
- Applied AI and forward-deployed 8 of 326
- ML systems and infrastructure 48 of 102
- Machine learning engineers 25 of 143
- Software engineering at labs 216 of 885
Recorded roles that mention it
347 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.
- Forward Deployed Engineer ↗
Lovable · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Forward Deployed Engineering Lead ↗
Lovable · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, Inference Foundation ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Spring 2027 Software Engineering Internship/Co-op ↗
xAI · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD required
- Summer 2027 Software Engineering Internship/Co-op ↗
xAI · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD required
- Research Engineer, ML Infrastructure ↗
Cognition · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure ↗
Cursor (Anysphere) · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Research Engineering Lead ↗
Lovable · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Performance Engineer, Inference Engine ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base
- Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Interpretability ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $315k to $560k base
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, RL Engineering ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Launch Engineering ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Staff Software Engineer, Inference ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems) ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent · $320k to $485k base
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems) ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Audio Inference Engineer, Model Efficiency ↗
Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure ↗
Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $235k to $325k base
- Member of Technical Staff, Model Efficiency ↗
Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Internship (Winter 2027) ↗
Cohere · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD required
- Site Reliability Engineer, Inference Infrastructure ↗
Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $160k to $260k base
- Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure ↗
Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $190k to $325k base
- Research Developer, Frontier AI Incubation, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent
- Research Engineer, GenAI, Information Tasks, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Scientist, AI Secure Code, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Verified Code Generation, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Staff Software Engineer, Inference Performance Optimization, GenAI, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent
- Technical Lead Manager, Applied AI, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Applied AI and forward-deployed · Bachelor's or equivalent
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Post-training & Reinforcement Learning - London ↗
H Company · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Engineer, Model Inference & Serving - London ↗
H Company · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required
- Research Engineer, Model Inference & Serving - Paris ↗
H Company · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required
- Research Engineer, Training & Inference ↗
Harmonic · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred · $200k to $450k base
- Member of Technical Staff - Inference Systems ↗
Liquid AI · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Member of Technical Staff - GPU Performance Engineer ↗
Liquid AI · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Simulation Researcher/Engineer ↗
Luma AI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- AI Research Scientist, Physical AI ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Audio Software Engineer, Applied Scientist ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Compiler Engineer, Graph Compiler Performance Optimization ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · ML systems and infrastructure · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Engineer, Evals Infra - MSL FAIR Foundations ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Research Engineer, Synthetic Data Generation ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Research Scientist, AI Research (PhD) ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Research Scientist, ML H-W/S-W Codesign ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Security Engineer, Applied AI ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Applied AI and forward-deployed · PhD required
- Software Engineer, AI Kernels & Performance Optimization — MTIA Software ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · ML systems and infrastructure · Master's, PhD or equivalent
- Software Engineer, Systems ML - Frameworks / Compilers / DL-Kernels ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · ML systems and infrastructure · PhD required
- AI Deployment Strategist, Science - EMEA ↗
Mistral AI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · PhD preferred