At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and scale data infrastructure for large-scale training systems.
- Company: Join Walden Robotics, a leader in innovative tech solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, flexible PTO, and daily lunch.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with opportunities for growth and leadership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on cutting-edge training technology and mentor future engineers.
- Qualifications: Strong background in ML infrastructure and distributed training.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
You'll build and scale the infrastructure where data meets training—the systems that feed data efficiently into large-scale training and keep those runs fast, stable, and reproducible. As a senior IC you lead this workstream together with our world-class data team and are a force multiplier for the research teams that depend on it.
Core Responsibilities:
- Data Path: Design and scale the data-loading, sharing, and caching that feeds large training runs.
- Training Reliability: Design and implement training-infra efficiency and reliability—throughput, utilization, checkpointing, fault tolerance.
- Bottleneck Removal: Find and remove bottlenecks between the data platform and training.
- Observability: Build tooling that makes training performance and failures easy to understand.
- Technical Leadership: Set standards and mentor MTS engineers across data and training infra.
Required Qualifications:
- Systems / ML Infra: Strong background with experience supporting large-scale training.
- Distributed Training: Deep understanding of distributed-training performance and the data path that feeds it.
- Technical Judgment: The ability to lead a work stream and make high-leverage infrastructure decisions.
- Performance: A rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance work.
- Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with large multimodal or video training pipelines.
- Familiarity with accelerator utilization, high-performance I/O, or distributed storage.
- Contributions to training-infrastructure or performance tooling.
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.
Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to hello@waldenrobotics.com.
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Senior Member of Technical Staff: Data & Training Infrastructure in Cambridge employer: Walden Robotics
Walden Robotics is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where you can lead impactful projects in data and training infrastructure. With competitive compensation, flexible PTO, and a commitment to employee growth through mentorship and technical leadership opportunities, you'll thrive in an environment that values your contributions. Located in a vibrant tech hub, Walden Robotics offers unique advantages such as daily lunches and a supportive atmosphere that encourages diversity and inclusion.
