Staff Engineer Multimodal Pre-Training

Position Summary:

Youll be a senior technical leader for the pre-training of the omni-models at the core of our stacksingle models trained across a wide range of objectives and modalities (LLM VLM video and action) at massive scale. Working alongside our AI leadership and world-class team youll help set the research agenda own high-impact architecture objective and data-mixture bets and help push how far these base models scale.

Core Responsibilities:

• Pre-Training Roadmap: Help drive the pre-training agenda for omni-models spanning language vision-language video and action in close partnership with the AI team.
• Omni-Model Objectives: Train a single model across a wide range of losses (LLM VLM video and image generation) at massive scale and decide how to weight and balance them.
• Core Modeling: Lead modeling work across architecture tokenization and the scaling-law analysis behind compute allocation.
• Data & Infrastructure: Turn petabyte-scale text image and video data into training-ready mixtures with the data and infra teams.
• Technical Leadership: Help raise the bar on training reliability and evaluation support and mentor teammates and bring frontier ideas into our stack quickly.

Required Qualifications:

• Large-Scale Pre-Training: Deep hands-on experience pre-training large modelsLLM VLM multimodal or VLAat significant scale with concrete results.
• Multi-Objective Training: Experience training across multiple objectives or modalitiese.g. combining language vision-language and generative video/image lossesand balancing them in one model.
• Generative & World Models: Hands-on experience with generative modeling of images and/or video (diffusion autoregressive or masked objectives) and/or world-model approaches to physical dynamics.
• Scaling & Systems: Fluency with scaling laws distributed training and the practical failure modes of massive runs and the ability to design around them.
• Technical Direction & Judgment: A track record of setting direction others build on moving fluidly between research and production-grade code and prioritizing ruthlessly under uncertainty.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience pre-training LLMs or VLMs at scale.
• Experience training video-generation image-generation or world-model systems at scale.
• Experience with action/robotics modalities or VLA models for embodied agents.
• Contributions to widely used models influential papers or open-source training stacks.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program including salary annual cash bonus company equity company-subsidized insurance programs 401(k) with company match flexible PTO daily lunch and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

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