at San Francisco Compute
Full TimeWe’re the San Francisco Compute Company. We’re building the first real-time compute trading platform. We think that over the next decade, thousands of startups and labs are going to be training and serving large models. They need compute to do this, and we’re building a platform on which that compute can be traded. If we’re successful, it will be possible to scale to tens of thousands of accelerators for hours at a time without having to build your own infrastructure. This will greatly increase the number of organizations that can afford to train large models, which will make the most important technology of our lifetime accessible to more people.
The San Francisco Compute Company is hiring for a machine learning systems role. This role works on optimizing performance for training large AI models.
About working with us
As the name implies, we mostly work in San Francisco. Our office is in Hayes Valley. Many of our customers are physically nearby, in that you can literally walk down the street to meet them.
We probably don't need to say it, but the problems are interesting. We make supercomputers, not SaaS.
Working at San Francisco Compute means helping hundreds of university labs, focused-research organizations, startups and tinkerers get access to ultra powerful machines. This is their biggest bottleneck and we think it's the highest possible leverage you can have as a software engineer to materially push scientific progress forward.
About you
You're an engineer with experience in Pytorch, Tensorflow or JAX. You have a keen eye for profiling, debugging and optimizing GPU utilization.
You may be a good fit if you are familar with distributed training techiques such as Data Parallel, Tensor Parallel & Pipeline Parallel.
You can buy as many books for the office as you want. You’re encouraged to spend time during the workday reading!
Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
We cover lunch daily for employees
Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits
We have been written about in Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Verge, and on Hacker News.
