Senior Applied Research Engineer
Fundamental· Research
BarcelonaFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior Applied Research Engineer at Fundamental, an AI research lab focused on large tabular models and enterprise decision-making. Join to tackle end-to-end distributed training, model scaling, and productionizing research-powered models.
Responsibilities
- Profile end-to-end distributed training runs to identify bottlenecks across compute, GPU memory, and inter-GPU communication
- Contribute to architectural decisions that improve the efficiency and reliability of large-scale training jobs, including developing Triton/CUDA kernels when needed
- Design and implement model scaling, parallelization, and memory optimization techniques for training workloads with very large context sizes
- Collaborate closely with ML Researchers to diagnose architectural inefficiencies, ensure new research ideas scale efficiently in practice, and spread internal knowledge about model efficiency and optimization
- Drive the productionization and serving of our models from the research side, including improving inference efficiency through techniques such as quantization
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of modern ML architectures and large-scale training pipelines
- Experience running distributed training jobs on multi-GPU systems
- Advanced profiling and debugging skills across CPU, GPU, memory usage, latency, and inter-GPU communication
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience with model scaling and parallelization strategies, including tensor and pipeline parallelism
Skills
Required:ML architectures and large-scale training pipelinesDistributed training on multi-GPU systemsProfiling and debugging (CPU/GPU/memory/latency/inter-GPU)Python programmingModel scaling and parallelization (tensor/pipeline)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with salary and equity
- Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents
- Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
- Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
- A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action
Last updated Sep 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Fundamental
The Power to Predict
The Power to Predict. Our most powerful Large Tabular Model. Pre-trained on billions of real-world enterprise tables, our model knows which patterns drive which outcomes.
NEXUSOur World’s Most Powerful Large Tabular ModelPre-trained on billions of real-world enterprise tablesEnterprise AIData AnalyticsTime SeriesConfidential ComputingCloud
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