The Opportunity
As a Research Engineer on the AI Innovation and Development team, you will play a key role in advancing research and scaling our engineering capabilities to support FICO’s Focused series of foundation models. Your work will be crucial in shaping FFM/FLMs to be responsible and steerable, ensuring they meet the high standards of our regulated clients worldwide.
— Senior Director of Research Engineering
What You’ll Contribute
• Build, train and scale FICO’s focused foundation models for financial services
• Enhance distributed training and inference frameworks for compute utilization and stability
• Develop systematic evaluations, reward models and asynchronous environments
• Work with financial institutions, pre-sales & forward engineers on real-world tasks
What We’re Seeking
• Strong in Python with proven experience in both ML and large distributed systems
• Industry experience with transformer-based scaling, optimization and evaluation
• Can balance novel research exploration with engineering rigor
Nice to Have
• Experience with applications of reinforcement learning and/or evolutionary algorithms
• Experience with pre-training foundation architectures from scratch
• Experience with inference and/or low-latency systems
• Experience with Rust and communication collectives
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